Poland's preeminent filmmaker takes on one of the great atrocities in that country's history...the murder of 18,000 Polish officers by the Russians in 1940. He focuses on a few individuals, showing the effect on friends and family as well as re-enacting the killing and exhumation. All were shot once in the back of the head and buried in mass graves.
There doesn't seem to be any limit to how low human behavior can go.
Given the extreme emotional impact of such an event, Wajda gets credit here for keeping the film low key and factual. Even with this restraint the audience is likely to exit the theater reeling from the monstrousness of the story. The Russians denied responsibility for decades and, of course, never atoned.
So it goes.
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