City Under Siege

1969

20m

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Overview

In the postwar years, many photographs and newsreels taken during the Siege were confiscated and destroyed for presenting too “subjective” a view of the events of that time. This film is the result of a long search through the Leningrad archives. Out of thousands of surviving wartime photographs, the director selected four hundred that had never before been used in cinema. The film is a montage of these historical documents, accompanied by the voices of poets Olga Berggolts and Alexander Prokofyev, radio announcer Yuri Levitan, and the sounds of air raid sirens…

Status: Released

Language: RU

Production Information

Production Companies

Leningrad Documentary Film Studio

Production Countries

Soviet Union

Quick Facts

Original Title	Город в осаде
Release Date	May 7, 1969
Status	Released
Language	RU

Cast

Key Crew

Pavel Kogan

Director

V. Gurvich

Writer

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