Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt

Overview

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.

Directed by Artem Demenok

Top cast

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)

Adelheid Kleineidam

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Kornelia Boje

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

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Agnes Regan

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

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)

Gabriele Blum

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Frank Röth

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

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Martina Reuter

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Hanns Jörg Krumpholz

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

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Josephine Paetzel

Self - Additional Narrator (voice)

Andrei Zhdanov

Self (archive footage)

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