On this film were working one director, 40 operators and 2 and a half million heroes. According to statistics, in 1941 in Leningrad lived 2 992 000 people, and in 1944 left half of a million.
Soviet popularization hided the tragedy of Leningrad genocide in heroic packaging: authors of newsreel and movies about military Leningrad were prescribed to show the pathos of the fight, not the horror of the death. 62 years after the run of the blockade director - documentalist Sergey Loznica has broken ideological taboo and showed the blockade of Leningrad as a history of one separately taken population destruction. In the film production were used unique archival materials, most of them were never published before…
Movie in Russian.
Дистрибьютор:
Alexander Studio Group
