A Siege Diary

Movie

2021

1h 58m

Russian

Drama, War

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6.2

A Siege Diary

Movie

2021

1h 58m

Russian

Drama, War

World War II. In autumn 1941 the German troops completely surrounded one of the biggest Russian cities — Leningrad. 2,5 million civilians got trapped in the city. The German commandment decided to destroy the city with bombings, artillery attacks and, most importantly, with hunger. The most difficult first winter of the siege (1941 — 1942). A young woman Olga is walking through the whole city to her father. She wants to see him one last time to say goodbye and to ask for his forgiveness.

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Cast

Olga

Olga's Father

Lieutenant Gunther

Gretchen

ice cream woman

Olga's mother

Matresha

Lyuba's daughter

woman with cabinet

woman with son on a sled

Lyuba

Directed By: Andrey Zaytsev

Written By: Ales Adamovich (Novel), Andrey Zaytsev (Screenplay), + 2 more

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jjjjs says...

one year ago

The hate against artistic solutions and hopelessness in a besieged city is simply disgusting. How did they not break if they almost resigned themselves? Yes, some were just lucky to survive. I remember my grandmother falling silent when asked. She didn't want to remember this. She and her small child were saved by her husband’s sister, who worked in the wardrobe at Smolny. From there they managed to bring scraps from the table of the city leadership, who lived completely differently. The blockade archives are still classified. It was probably worse than this trip with a camera among the living dead. Everlasting memory...

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miguelreina says...

3 years ago

[RussianFF] It crudely shows the siege of Leningrad with an excellent B/W cinematography that shows an almost ghostly city, in which its inhabitants move like spectres. There's a clear patriotic undertone, but the director avoids being propagandistic, focusing on the hunger, cold and scarcity that people endured. The hallucinatory atmosphere is reinforced by scraps of memory that show an idyllic childhood in color.

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