'Katyn' Massacre at the Berlin Film Festival History Lessons from Poland

Until now, no one has managed to force open the darkest corners of Poland's "sealed memory." Andrzej Wajda's new World War II drama, "Katyn," succeeds. It tells the long-taboo tale of the roughly 14,500 Polish military officers murdered by the Soviet army in 1940.

Von Olaf Sundermeyer