Polish film director Andrzej Wajda is planning to film a movie about the World War II Katyn massacre, the state-run news agency TASR reported.
"It's a complicated theme not only because it was taboo for years, but it is hard to find the right way to transfer it to the screen," Wajda said Thursday.
Wajda received an honorary Oscar in 2000 for his body of work, which includes "Danton" and "The Possessed."
Wajda said he wants to start filming this year.
Some 22,000 Polish prisoners of war were killed by Soviet secret police in 1940 in and around the forest near the city of Katyn, in what was then western Soviet Union. The remains were uncovered in 1943 by the Nazis after they had overrun the area in their invasion of the Soviet Union.
The memory of the massacre remains a strong irritant in Polish-Russian relations.
"My father was also executed then," Wajda said, adding that "the real hero of this story is my mother."
Wajda's father Jakub was 40 at the time of his death. His mother had to find a job, forcing a once well-off family of intellectuals into a working-class existence that provided more fodder for Wajda's films.
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