Film
City Under Siege
1969 · 20m · Documentary
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Overview
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 The film is a montage of these historical documents, accompanied by the voices of poets Olga Berggolts and Alexander Prokofyev, radio announcer Yuri Levitan, and the sounds of air raid sirens…
Crew
- Pavel KoganDirector
- V. GurvichWriter
- Taisa YansonEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- May 7, 1969
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- Documentary
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