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Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt

78 %|Jan 9, 2024|Documentary, History, War, Drama

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht on Hitler's orders lasted. Over a million people fell victim to the blockade, most of them dying of hunger. Countless of these starving people wrote diaries with the last of their strength, and cameramen filmed in the paralyzed city. Evidence from the hell of the siege, many of the film recordings, but above all the written memories on which this documentary on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation is based, remained under lock and key after the war. The voices of those who had suffered through this terrible time should not be heard by anyone, because they did not fit the pathos of the Leningrad heroic song that was officially sung. Most of the recordings come from women. The writers feared neither the enemy nor the Communist Party or Stalin, who often proved incompetent in providing for the population.

Featured Crew

Artem Demenok
Director
Artem Demenok
Writer
Oleg Stinski
Director of Photography
Andreas Christoph Schmidt
Producer
Sergej Range
Editor
Christian Wilmes
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Victor Belyakov
Researcher
Alva Noto
Original Music Composer

Cast

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Hanns Zischler
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Toni Lorentz
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Irmelin Krause
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Sabra Lopes
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Judith von Radetzky
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Adelheid Kleineidam
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Kornelia Boje
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Agnes Regan
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Golo Euler
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Michael Noack
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Natascha Bub
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Gabriele Blum
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Frank Röth
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Martina Reuter
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Hanns Jörg Krumpholz
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Josephine Paetzel
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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Andrei Zhdanov
Self (archive footage)