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SBS Film Focus: Poland

Join us this February as we celebrate Polish cinema with a very special season on SBS TWO.

This week's highlights

Katyn

An examination of the mass killings of Polish soldiers in the Katyn forest in 1940.
(SBS TWO, Tue)

Heaven, Hell... Earth

An injured ballerina has a passionate affair with an older physician.
(SBS ONE, Tue)

Flanders

This story of love and war won the Jury Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
(SBS TWO, Tue)

Hunger

A biopic of the Irish Republican Army activist and hunger striker Bobby Sands. (SBS TWO, Wed)

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Tuesday

07 February 2012

13:00	Children Of Heaven Two children devise a plan to save their parents’ heartache in this sweet tale of innocence, childhood and a lost pair of shoes. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1999. Directed by Majid Majidi and stars Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian and Bahare Seddiqi. (From Iran, in Farsi) (Drama) (1997) (Rpt) G
21:30	Katyn A sobering tale of the massacre of 22,000 Polish officers and Poland's intellectual elite - all of POW status - by the Red Army in 1940, and the subsequent propaganda that masked the truth for the next fifty years. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008. Directed by Andrzej Wajda and stars Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska and Artur Zmijewski. (From Poland, in Polish, Russian and German) (War) (2007) MAV (A,V)
23:05	Heaven, Hell... Earth In the cinematic vein of 'Amelie', a passionate affair between a charismatic middle-aged physician and a vulnerable young ballerina comes to a crashing halt when the physician's wife returns home. Directed by Laura Siváková and stars Zuzana Kanóczová, Bronislaw Wroclawski and Jiri Korn. (From Slovakia, in Slovak) (Drama) (2009) M (N,S)
23:40	Flanders Set during a future European war, a group of young men leave their tiny rural Flemish community, and their loves, to fight a war in a distant land. It’s a story about the misery and horror of war and what happens after, when they have to become men again. Winner of the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes in 2006. Directed by Bruno Dumont and stars Adelaide Leroux, Samuel Boidin and Henri Cretel. (From France, in French) (Drama) (2006) (Rpt) MAV (V,S,A)