Natasha LO
Наташа ЛО
Natacha LO
Russia / Poland, 2009, 29mn 
Colour, black and white, documentary
Ya uvidel palacha
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Я увидел палача

 

 I Saw The Executioner

 J'ai vu le bourreau

 
Directed by : Natasha LO (Наташа ЛО)
Writing credits : Natasha LO (Наташа ЛО)
Cinematography : Natasha LO (Наташа ЛО), Natalia PAVLOVSKAYA (Наталья ПАВЛОВСКАЯ)
Produced by : Natasha LO (Наташа ЛО)
Other persons :
Camera : Михал СЛУСАРЧИК (Mikhail SLUSARCHIK), Дмитрий СИМОНОВ (Dmitri SIMONOV), Дмитрий КОЗЛОВ (Dmitri KOZLOV)
Producers : Кшиштоф КОПЧИНСКИ (Kshishtof KOPCHINSKI), Мария ФЕТИСОВА (Maria FETISOVA)
Companies : Higher Courses of Script Writers and Directors
 
Plot synopsis
For half a century the Mednov forest has kept its secret of mass graves of 5,000 Russians and 6,000 Poles. They all have fallen invisible victims to Stalinera terror by NKVD.
This is the second Russian film on Katyn. Film-dialogue between the Head of NKVD, who issued orders to secretly execute people and prisoners that had a miraculous escape and the relatives of the diseased.
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Open St.Petersburg Student Film Festival Beginning, St Petersburg (Russia), 2010
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2010