Attack on Leningrad

Attack on Leningrad

DVD Cover
Directed by Aleksandr Buravsky
Produced by Aleksandr Buravsky
Chris Curling
Peter Doyle
David Gamburg
Andre Gromkovski
Leo Zisman
Written by Aleksandr Buravsky
Chris Solimine
Starring Gabriel Byrne
Mira Sorvino
Aleksandr Abdulov
Vladimir Ilyin
Mikhail Efremov
Mikhail Trukhin
Yevgeni Sidikhin
Olga Sutulova
Kirill Lavrov
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Music by Yuri Poteyenko
Cinematography Vladimir Klimov
Edited by Mariya Sergeyenkova
Release dates
  • September 19, 2009 (2009-09-19) (Oldenburg International Film Festival)
  • January 21, 2010 (2010-01-21) (Russia)
Running time
110 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Russia
Language English
German
Russian

Attack on Leningrad, or just Leningrad, is a 2009 war film written and directed by Aleksandr Buravsky, set during the Siege of Leningrad.[1]

Plot

In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and their troops besieged the city of Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davis (Mira Sorvino), is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetkova (Olga Sutulova) a young and idealist police officer and together they fight for their own and other people's survival.

Cast


External links

References

  1. "Leningrad (Attack on Leningrad) (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 31 May 2012.


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