City Under Siege
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 The film is a montage of these historical documents, accompanied by the voices of poets Olga Berggolts and Alexander Prokofyev, radio announcer Yuri Levitan, and the sounds of air raid sirens…
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Pavel Kogan Director · V. Gurvich Writer Taisa Yanson Editor
First release May 7, 1969 · Produced in Russia · Original title Город в осаде
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Leningrad Documentary Film Studio
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Russia
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Original title
Город в осаде
Original language
Russian
Release dates
Russia · May 7, 1969
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