August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an almost impossible task: to stage the premiere of Dimitri Shostakovitch's "Leningrad Symphony". The performance became a symbol of the brief triumph of culture over the barbarism of war.
The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this p...
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Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two...
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