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Film · 1969 · 20m

City Under Siege

Город в осаде

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Synopsis

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 The film is a montage of these historical documents, accompanied by the voices of poets Olga Berggolts and Alexander Prokofyev, radio announcer Yuri Levitan, and the sounds of air raid sirens…

Details

Director
Pavel Kogan
Release
May 7, 1969
Status
Released
Country
Soviet Union
Network
Leningrad Documentary Film Studio
Runtime
20m

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