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.
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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.
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
New movie by Nikita Efimov
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
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
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
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.
A week in Leningrad in 1976, as imagined by man and artificial intelligence. Marshal Brezhnev’s anniversary and the first celebration of John Lennon’s birthday in the USSR, the landing of the last Soviet station on the M
In Moscow, on the Red Square, film-maker Xavier Villetard opens the doors to the mausoleum of Lenin, which is unusual, since it normally stays closed. From 1924 until the fall of the USSR in 1991, the embalmed body of th
Amateur film by German ethnographer, church historian, and icon collector Martin Winkler, taken on several trips to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.
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.