Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt

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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.

Discover

Hanns Zischler

Self - Narrator (voice)

Toni Lorentz

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Irmelin Krause

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Sabra Lopes

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Judith von Radetzky

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Adelheid Kleineidam

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Kornelia Boje

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Agnes Regan

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Golo Euler

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Michael Noack

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Natascha Bub

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Gabriele Blum

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Frank Röth

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Martina Reuter

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Hanns Jörg Krumpholz

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Josephine Paetzel

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Andrei Zhdanov

Self (archive footage)

Camera

Oleg Stinski

Director of Photography

Crew

Dagmar Mielke

Commissioning Editor

Marc Brasse

Commissioning Editor

Rolf Bergmann

Commissioning Editor

Kathrin Bronnert

Commissioning Editor

Directing

Artem Demenok

Director

Editing

Production

Victor Belyakov

Researcher

Igor Suchanov

Production Manager

Cordula Paetzel

Production Manager

Tim Carlberg

Production Manager

Britta Büttner

Research Assistant

Sound

Christian Wilmes

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Alva Noto

Original Music Composer

Writing