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.
Hanns Zischler
Self - Narrator (voice)
Toni Lorentz
Self - Additional Narrator (voice)
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January 9, 2024
1h 29m
7.8
Artem Demenok
Artem Demenok
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Schmidt & Paetzel Fernsehfilme
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NDR
DE
RBB
DE
ARTE
DE
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)
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