(Город в осаде)

Content: 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 The film is a montage of these historical documents, accompanied by the voices of poets Olga Berggolts and Alexander Prokofyev, radio announcer Yuri Levitan, and the sounds of air raid sirens…

Countries:

Soviet Union

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

20 minutes

Year:

1969

Directors:

Pavel Kogan

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Production companies:

Leningrad Documentary Film Studio

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Director

Writer

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Sound