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Leningrad (2009)

Leningrad (2009)

Drama War

Some fight. Others fall. All are heroes.

Release Date: 2009, January 1
Directors: Aleksandr Buravskiy
Countries: United Kingdom, Russia
Production: KoBura Film, Ministerstvo kultury Rossiyskoy Federatsii, Studiya dokumental'nykh fil'mov Sankt-Peterburga, Channel One, Non-Stop Productions
Cast: Mira Sorvino, Gabriel Byrne, Christian Berkel, Helen Lindsay, Armin Mueller-Stahl, David Verrey, Alexander Beyer, Eckehard Hoffmann, Marat Basharov, Pavel Derevyanko, Mikhail Efremov, Aleksandr Sirin

Overview:

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.

Keywords:

world war ii journalist restaurant critic st. petersburg, russia siege bomb alarm wolf's lair