Summary:

Andrzej Wajda recreates the events of the Katyn´s massacre at the beginning of the Second World War, in whith 22 thousand polish were killed by the soviets, and then they accused the nazis for the crime.The polish director adapt Sofocles´s Antigona to the postwar scenario, to report Agnieszka´s struggle to sign on the tombstone of her brother killed in Katyn, the real date when he died, disrupting the false tale of the communists about the responsability for his death. Wajda´s Katyn is the cinematographic way of giving words and images to a real that was decreed as not having happen.

Key words: Genocide | truth | comunism | grief