In 2008 polish film maker andrzej wadja released his film katyn, about the massacre of 20,000 polish officers by the soviet union during world war ii. when asked why he had made this movie, wadja said he wanted to make a film for “those moviegoers for whom it matters that we are a society and not just an accidental crowd.” wadja believed that it was still possible for people to be bound together on the basis of shared traditions and experiences. in his statement, wadja was expressing a hope that poland could still be united by: