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CATEGORIES:Film Screenings and Talks
SUMMARY:SCREENING: The General: The Gibraltar Assassinatio
 n (Poland\, 2009) - Dr. Matilda Mroz (Dept. of Sla
 vonic Studies)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100511T170000
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UID:TALK24564AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/24564
DESCRIPTION:***Europe East and West: Film\, History\, and Mour
 ning*** \n\nThe General: The Gibraltar Assassinati
 on \nDir. Anna Jadowska\, Poland\, 2009. \n\nGibra
 ltar\, 4 June 1943: General Sikorski\, the Command
 er-in-Chief of the Polish forces\, is killed when 
 his plane crashes into the sea several seconds aft
 er taking off. He had been a guest of the British 
 Governor. Despite the suspicious circumstances sur
 rounding the crash\, and an inability to determine
  its cause\, the investigating British forces reso
 lutely declare it an accident. \n\nHistorian Dariu
 sz Baliszewski has spent the past fifteen years co
 llecting archival documents and questioning key wi
 tnesses. His conclusion: Sikorski had become a thr
 eat to the Soviet-British alliance. He refused to 
 accept Stalin’s denial that he had massacred thous
 ands of Polish officers in Katyn in 1940\, and may
  have been in possession of documents that would a
 lso have damaged the reputation of Britain. There 
 was no “accident” in Gibraltar: the plane was load
 ed with bodies already killed at the palace by hos
 tile Polish agents. \n\nThis innovative and startl
 ing film reconstructs how the last days of Sikorsk
 i’s life would have looked like if Baliszewski’s t
 heories are correct. \n\nThis screening will be fo
 llowed by a paper on the 18th May: Dr. Matilda Mro
 z (Dept. of Slavonic Studies)\n‘Restless bodies\, 
 buried texts: Sikorski\, The General\, and the arc
 hive’\n\n
LOCATION:Keynes Hall\, King's College\, Cambridge
CONTACT:Matilda Mroz
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