A young, ambitious journalist risks love, career and ultimately his life to uncover the true identity of an Eastern European refugee and his connection to the British Government's collusion in the cover up of one of Stalin's most notorious crimes.
The Last Witness deals with one of the worst and bloodiest cover ups in world
history. World War II began with the Nazi invasion of Poland at the beginning of
Sept. 1939. Simultaneously, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland. The two
totalitarian regimes equally divided their conquests. In April and May of 1940 the
NKVD under the instructions of Stalin massacred some 22,000 elite Polish
soldiers, priests, and intelligentsia in the Katyn forest and buried the bodies
therein. The Germans knew that the Russians had done it and Goebbels used the
slaughter as propaganda against the Soviets in 1943. Yet, after the war was over,
the British and Americans put the blame on Nazi Germany so as not to perturb
Comrade Stalin. This film shows the attempt of one intrepid journalist (masterfully
played by Alex Pettyfer - I Am Number 4, Beastly, Magic Mike - in a breakout
role) to unmask the cover up from evidence that one surviving witness to the
horrifying event provided. The unfolding drama in this movie takes place in 1947.
Despite all possible efforts, the truth was not officially revealed until 1990 when
Gorbachev confirmed the actual guilty party. Declassified documents in 2012
supported Gorbachev's admission.
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