Leningrad. Stimmen einer belagerten Stadt (2024)
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.
Director: Artem Demenok
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Hanns Zischler as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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Toni Lorentz as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Irmelin Krause as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Sabra Lopes as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Judith von Radetzky as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Adelheid Kleineidam as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Kornelia Boje as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Agnes Regan as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Golo Euler as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Michael Noack as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Natascha Bub as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Gabriele Blum as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Frank Röth as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Martina Reuter as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Hanns Jörg Krumpholz as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Josephine Paetzel as Self - Additional Narrator (voice) |
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Andrei Zhdanov as Self (archive footage) |
| Directing | Artem Demenok | Director |
| Writing | Artem Demenok | Writer |
| Production | Andreas Christoph Schmidt | Producer |
| Editing | Sergej Range | Editor |
| Camera | Oleg Stinski | Director of Photography |
| Crew | Dagmar Mielke | Commissioning Editor |
| Sound | Christian Wilmes | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Production | Victor Belyakov | Researcher |
| Sound | Alva Noto | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Igor Suchanov | Production Manager |
| Crew | Marc Brasse | Commissioning Editor |
| Production | Cordula Paetzel | Production Manager |
| Crew | Rolf Bergmann | Commissioning Editor |
| Production | Tim Carlberg | Production Manager |
| Crew | Kathrin Bronnert | Commissioning Editor |
| Production | Britta Büttner | Research Assistant |
