Last Witness, The

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 film begins as Underwood, a dogged and dour struggling beat reporter, pawns off his latest assigned fluff piece to his typist in order to pursue a story about the alarming amount of recent suicides by Polish ex-pats living in the English internment camps. Though he is stonewalled by law enforcement at virtually every lead, family connections at one of the local encampments allows him an audience with Polish forces Colonel Janusz Pietrowski and the officer’s mysterious Russian charge. Underwood learns that the Russian is a refugee himself because he is the last witness to the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish troops captured by Stalin’s army in the early days of the Russian occupation of Poland. Underwood wants to go public with the story, but an elaborate cover up that goes all the way up to Churchill and FDR is discovered. Though everyone agrees that the heinous acts committed by the Russians amount to punishable war crimes, the subterfuge is seen as a necessary evil in order to maintain the delicate political balance for the greater good. Obviously Underwood’s story was eventually brought to light, but it was not without great consequence to the writer and those around him.

Lisatud 28.06.2018, 788 957 984b, MkvCage

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