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Hope House I can honestly say that it is the film I wanted to make. Q: Finally, what does it mean to you on a personal level to have completed this film and have it part of your legacy as a filmmaker? For example, Waverly Root, the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Posts foreign correspondent for three decades, wrote a three-volume Secret History of the War, whose final instalment titled Casablanca to Katyn included forty-six pages devoted to defending the Soviet version of Katyn. Background. Stephen Underwood 2. His articles and reviews have appeared inJournal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry, Comparative Literature Studies, Scope, Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema, Film Criticism, KinoKulturaand others. One gathers he made the mistake of reading Hannah Arendts account of how the Judenrat(Jewish council) helped the Nazis police Jewish ghettoes. Q: I believe the idea for The Last Witness out on Digital and DVD now came to you in 1995. He is mostly known as the presenter of Sky News at Seven and Sky News at Ten. Q: One of the most impactful moments in the film is the actual footage of the Katyn Massacre mass graves. Q: This is an incredibly moving film that will surely provoke intense responses from audiences. Consistent with post-Communist Russian disavowal of Stalin, Putin met with Polish leaders in 2010 to pay his respects to the victims at Katyn. That I would love to happen. The goal was to undermine the reputation of the USSR through revelations about a war crime that the USSR blamed on the Nazis. We have found at least 200 people in the UK with the name Stephen Underwood. latin kings members; best fabric for underwater photography "Gaius Lutatius Catulus | Roman commander". Stephen Underwood - Reporter - The Hartford Courant | LinkedIn Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 16(1), 33-47. In 2012, over 1,000 pages on Katyn were released by the U.S. National Archives indicating that the USA was not willing to blame Stalin, not even up until 1990. The excuse was that it did not want to add to Cold War tensions. Q: Where did the journey to make this film begin and what were some of the biggest hurdles to getting made?