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Leningrad

Leningrad

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2009

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

War, Drama

User Score

55%

Original Title

Leningrad

Production Companies

KoBura Film, Ministerstvo kultury Rossiyskoy Federatsii, Studiya dokumental'nykh fil'mov Sankt-Peterburga, Channel One, Non-Stop Productions

Director

Aleksandr Buravskiy

Description

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.