Russia shows Jan Karski film in special screening
"Karski and the Rulers of Mankind", a 75-minute documentary about the Polish wartime underground's emissary Jan Karski, who was among the first to inform the Allies about the Holocaust, was shown in special screenings in Russia Wednesday.
The film was shown in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Omsk, Yekaterinburg, Novosybirsk and Kazan to mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (Jan. 27). The Moscow screening took place during the ongoing 2morrow/Zawtra film festival.
The film will enter Russian cinemas on February 4.
Attending the Moscow screening was the film's director Slawomir Gruenberg. Before the screening Polish Ambassador in Russia Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz presented a brief account of Karski's history.
Jan Karski (24 June 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a member of the Polish World War Two resistance movement who in 1942 and 1943 reported to the Polish government in exile and the Western Allies on the situation in German-occupied Poland, especially the destruction of Warsaw's Jewish ghetto and German-Nazi extermination camps. (PAP)
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