PIOTR SZKOPIAK (The Last Witness) Interview! (6/1/18)

Our distinguished guest is world renowned director, PIOTR SZKOPIAK. He is with us tonight to discuss his second feature film, which has just made a big splash in Europe, The Last Witness. It deals with the terrible Katyn Massacre (genocide) perpetrated by the Soviet Communists during WWII when they murdered over 22,000 Poles. 

Everyone needs to see this great movie and bring awareness to this forgotten Left-wing evil!

The movie stars Alex Pettyfer, Michael Gambon, Robert Wieckiewicz, & Talulah Riley. It was produced by Vicarious Productions and is represented worldwide by GFM Films. It was released theatrically in Poland on 156 screens on May 11th. It was released in the US on VOD and Digital HD on May 29th. It will be released on DVD next week on June 5th.

His first feature film, Small Time Obsession, was selected to play in competition at the British and Irish Film Festival in France and as part of the UK Film Series in New Zealand. Both Variety and The Guardian described him as “a director to watch”.

Piotr works regularly as a director in television drama for the BBC and ITV, most recently as lead director on new BBC crime drama Shakespeare & Hathaway. He was twice nominated for BAFTA TV Awards.

His Website is: www.PiotrSzkopiak.com

It's England, 1947. And 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...

In post-war Bristol, neophyte journalist STEPHEN UNDERWOOD (Alex Pettyfer) is keen to prove his worth in a society where everyone is taught to know his or her place and not to question authority. He works for a local newspaper and yearns to break a big story while his editor, FRANK HAMILTON (Michael Gambon), is happy to keep him reporting on nothing more controversial than local community events. However, when Stephen stumbles across the suicide of a Polish soldier from the local Displaced Persons' camp, he disregards Hamilton's objections and follows his instincts.

Stephen heads to the camp to question the commanding officer, his estranged brother, CAPTAIN JOHN UNDERWOOD (Gwilym Lee), but John is far from happy to see him and is reluctant to answer any questions. Stephen meets COLONEL JANUSZ PIETROWSKI (Will Thorp), formerly of the Polish Second Corps (under British command) and now a Liaison Officer for the resettlement of Polish troops. When Stephen mentions the suicide, Pietrowski explains that many Poles had lost all hope since their homeland was occupied by Soviet Russia and many fear for their lives but Stephen remains skeptical.

Stephen is also intimately involved with JEANETTE MITCHELL (Talulah Riley), a Junior Commander in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, who works under his brother at the DP camp. She is trapped in a marriage of convenience with a homosexual military intelligence officer, MASON MITCHELL (Henry Lloyd-Hughes). Both Stephen and Jeanette dream of escaping to London and starting a new life together and in the course of a clandestine meeting in a local public house, Stephen witnesses a confrontation between a new arrival at the camp, MICHAEL LOBODA (Robert Wieckiewicz), and a local farmer. During the argument Loboda inadvertently claims he is Russian and not Polish. 

Curious as to what a Russian is doing posing as a Polish refugee, Stephen questions Loboda. Loboda believes his life is in danger but will not say why and threatens to kill Stephen if he presses him further. Undaunted, Stephen steals a small metal cash-box from Loboda's belongings whilst he is asleep. Inside the box he finds a bloodstained diary belonging to a young Polish cadet but before Stephen can determine its significance, Loboda disappears from the camp in mysterious circumstances.

Thus begins Stephen's journey into the unknown and his discovery that Loboda is in fact the last witness left in the West who could testify to the execution of Polish nationals by Stalin's secret police in 1940 and that the diary is conclusive proof of their guilt. He then becomes embroiled in a dangerous and multi-layered conspiracy to suppress the truth about the killings.

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★BITTER HARVEST★ Opening Weekend!!! ★TRP Interview★ with director, co-writer, & producer ... The Great George Mendeluk! (2/24/17)

Tonight is the premier of the highly anticipated film, Bitter Harvest, released by Roadside Attractions! It stars Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper, and Terence Stamp!

Bitter Harvest , is a romantic drama, that takes place during the "Holodomor," the Soviet "collectivization" and "terror-famine holocaust" of the early 1930's! A momentous, tragic, yet often neglected chapter of modern history that saw the Soviet Communist Party strike a double-blow at the peasantry of the USSR! (1)"De-kulakization:" the murder and dispossession of millions of peasant families and (2)"collectivization:" the effective abolition of private property, and the concentration of the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms under ruthless Party control! (Dr. Robert Conquest conservatively estimated 14 million people were murdered during this 7 year period! To put that evil in "The Right Perspective"...8.7 million Soviet soldiers died during WWII!!)

We are honored this evening to be joined by the film's internationally acclaimed director, co-writer, and producer, George Mendeluk!

Mr. Mendeluk has directed a number of industry greats during his distinguished career, including Christopher Plummer, William Shatner, Hal Holbrook, Ava Gardner, Anne Archer, and Josh Brolin.

An international talent of Ukrainian descent, Mr. Mendeluk, was born in Germany and his family immigrated to Canada shortly thereafter... He was unable to speak English until he was 5 years old, yet, went on to graduate from college with a degree in "English!" He has traveled the world and has maintained a strong commitment to the international film market. He has received 5 Gemini Awards Nominations, including Best Director, and has won awards at the New York Film and Television Festival!

The Communist's crimes against humanity must be told! This movie is a clarion call that all Americans must answer!

George Mendeluk and his team must be commended for bringing this picture to the big screen! Liberal Hollywood has helped to cover up the truth of Communism for decades and George is already facing their public backlash! 

This is one of the most stirring, stunning, and enlightening interviews we have ever done in our near 20 year history of the show! Bitter Harvest is a movie that both educates and entertains! The movie must be seen and the film's message and the historical truth it exposes must never be forgotten!

• Learn why Marxism is nothing more than ideological phrenology! 
• Food has always been the historical weapon of the Left!
• There were never any "Nuremberg trials" for the Communists! 
• The long history of "fake news" by the Left! Fellow traveling yellow journalist and stooge of the Communists, NY Times Pulitzer Prize winner, Walter Duranty is discussed! (George finds it unconscionable that the award has not been posthumously stripped from him!)
• Paul Robeson was one of the leading Hollywood Communist culprits that had plenty of blood on his hands!
• Welsh journalist and hero, Gareth Jones, is brought up by George, the first to report to the West the truth of the Holodomor!
• The Hollywood Bolshevik anti-Ukrainian propaganda film, North Star (1943), is remembered by Frank!
• The term "The Ukraine" is meant to deny the sovereignty of Ukraine by classifying it simply as a "geographic area" with no distinct nationalism!
• John brings up many examples of how the Left tries to force "their version" of equality on us! George talks about the impossibility of "homogenization!"
• The Cuban gangster regime and an anology to the movie, The Godfather!

Become a fellow stu-dant of history and read the following books that are discussed in the interview!!

• Harvest of Sorrow & Reflections of a Ravaged Century, by the late great, Dr. Robert Conquest! (TRP GUEST)
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder!
• Time of Stalin: Portrait of Tyranny, by Anton Ovesyenko!
• The Unknown Stalin, by Roy Medvedev!
• The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia, by Tim Tzouliadis!
• Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars, by Richard Overy! (TRP GUEST)

& lastly...

• Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership, by Susan Butler, (TRP GUEST) a Stalin apologist that Frank famously confronted for pushing Soviet Propaganda!

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Interview with Dr. Michael S. Neiberg! (10/16/15)

MICHAEL S. NEIBERG is the inaugural Chair of War Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College. His published work specializes on the First and Second World Wars, notably the American and French experiences. His most recent book on the First World War is Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (Harvard University Press, 2011). The Wall Street Journal recently named it one of the five best books ever written about the war. In October, 2012 Basic Books published his The Blood of Free Men, a history of the liberation of Paris in 1944. In May, 2015 Basic published his Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe which he is here tonight to discuss....He is currently at work on a history of American responses to the Great War, 1914-1917.

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Susan Butler Interview! (6/26/15)

We would like to welcome to the program, acclaimed author, Susan Butler. She grew up in New York and received her MA from Columbia University. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times and Barron’s....

She is here tonight to discuss her latest book, Roosevelt and Stalin, Portrait of a Partnership....Making use of previously classified materials from the Russian State Archive as well as the FDR Library and three hundred hot-war messages between Roosevelt and Stalin, Butler tells the story of how the leader of the free world and the leader of the Communist world became more than allies of convenience during World War II... Butler reassess how the two men became partners, how they shared the same outlook for the postwar world, and how they formed an uneasy but deep friendship, shaping the world’s political stage from the war, all the way to the decades leading into the new century....

A spirited and lively interview where the guys clash with Susan over some of the facts about Roosevelt & Stalin...

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