Movies: The siege of leningrad

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other....

Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II....

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 to the blockade, most of them d...

August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an almost impossible task: to stage the premiere of Dimitri Shostakovitch's "Leningrad Symphony". The p...