Leningrad Retrospective

A montage of Leningrad newsreel becomes a composite collage made up of documents-shots, divided in 16 parts, presenting the author's point of view on Russia and modern times. In the title, Sokurov appears as 'compiler' a

Tchaikovsky: 150th Birthday Gala from Leningrad

A legendary 1990 all-star concert celebrating the 150th anniversary of the composer Tchaikovsky's birth.

Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht on Hitler's orders lasted. Over a million people fell victim t

Leningrad in Struggle

Frustration of the German attempt to capture Leningrad, 1941, the besieging of the city.

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Field of Operations: Leningrad

The siege began on 8 September 1941, when the Wehrmacht severed the last road to the city. Although Soviet forces managed to open a narrow land corridor to the city on 18 January 1943, the Red Army did not lift the siege

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The Siege: Leningrad Metronome

A story about the tragic events in the life of besieged Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1943.

Leningrad 4

A four-novel documentary about the city of Leningrad on the verge of the USSR's collapse. The main characters of the film are independent photographers who documented that time period.

Last Days of Leningrad

A film about the poor intelligentsia, shot in a cramped flat in a city that was called Leningrad in 1989. Today, the people and the city where the film was shot no longer exist. The film becomes a time capsule.

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad' @ Gewandhaus, Leipzig

To mark the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform his Symphony No. 7, known as the ‘Leningrad’, a symbol of resistance against fascism

Express Moscow – Leningrad

In the compartment of the express train, worker, Hero of Socialist Labor E.I.Lebedev, director of the Zvezda plant V.G.Pershin and Doctor of Philosophy O. K. Shkaratan, to the songs of students, argue about the hierarchy

Leningrad the Hero City

The film tells about the heroic struggle of the Leningraders during the siege, about the defenders of Leningrad, and about various aspects of life in the city today.

26 Iyar. Leningrad

The film is about the unknown pages of the siege of Leningrad, about the Holocaust at the walls of the city, where the terrible mass murder of Jews took place. In these terrible days, the community found its leader. They

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The Girl from Leningrad

Set during the 1939–1940 Winter War, the film follows a group of young women from Leningrad who volunteer for service at the front. Working as nurses in hospitals and on the battlefield, they devote themselves to saving

War in Russia: The Siege of Leningrad

Relive one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history that led to the systematic starvation and destruction of the human population.

Leningrad & the Orchestra That Defied Hitler

Amanda Vickery and Tom Service tell the story of the remarkable performance of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony at the Philharmonic Hall in Leningrad in 1942 in the midst of the siege of the city.

The Heroic Deed of Leningrad

The whole world knows the immortal feat of the residents of besieged Leningrad, accomplished during the Great Patriotic War. The tragic story of the blockade, which lasted for nine hundred days and ended with the defeat

Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad

Within the city, the authorities did what they could. As one fell ill, another succeeded him. Continuous attacks by ill-trained Russian troops finally broke through the German lines and the siege was relieved. However,