Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt (2024)
• January 9th, 2024 • 1h 29min
Documentary, History, War, Drama
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Germans
Released on: 1997-05-09
Drama, History, War
A story about a German family during World War II with every family member having a different approa...
The Montreal Protocol
Released on:
Drama, History
A group of underdog scientists set out to repair the hole in the ozone layer and avoid a global envi...
Accident or Conspiracy: Godhra
Released on: 2024-07-19
History, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A student whose parents died in the Gujarat pogrom receives an assignment on the same topic at his u...
Shoah
Released on: 1985-04-21
Documentary, History
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conductin...
My Diary of Lies
Released on: 2023-03-02
TV Movie, Thriller, Drama
After making the cheer squad at her new school, Natalie becomes public enemy number one after she's ...
The Ponzán Network
Released on: 2022-10-24
Documentary, History
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand...
The Wannsee Conference
Released on: 1984-12-19
Drama, History
A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officals g...
Entre Nous
Released on: 1983-04-06
Drama, War
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Mea...
The Boat Is Full
Released on: 1981-01-15
Drama, History, War
During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany...
Summer with Kuro
Released on: 1990-06-04
Drama, Animation, History
Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants t...
When the Wind Blows
Released on: 1986-10-24
Animation, War, Science Fiction
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare ...
Eye of the Needle
Released on: 1981-07-24
Drama, Thriller
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber th...
Malena
Released on: 2000-03-16
Drama
During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman livi...
The Guns of Navarone
Released on: 1961-04-27
War, Adventure, Thriller, Action
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held i...
Churchill's Darkest Decision
Released on: 2009-05-25
Documentary, War
The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that...
Swing Kids
Released on: 1993-03-05
Music, Drama
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from ...
Enigma
Released on: 2001-01-22
Mystery, Drama, Thriller, Romance, War
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to en...
Chhaava
Released on: 2025-02-14
History, Action, Drama
Shivaji's death sparks the Maratha-Mughal conflict. His son Sambhaji leads resistance against Aurang...
Ikkis
Released on: 2025-11-07
History, War
Set against the backdrop of the 1971 war, follows the life of second Lieutenant Arun Khetrapal.