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THE SIEGE
1973, Film I — “Luga Line of Defense", 109 min., Film II — “Pulkovsky Meridian”, 76 min.; color, wide format. Drama.
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Arnold
Vitol, Alexander Chakovsky (based on a novel of the same title by Alexander Chakovsky), camera: Anatoli Nazarov, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov,
music: Veniamin Basner, sound: Irina Volkova, song lyrics: Mikhail Matusovsky.
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Yevgeni Lebedev, Irina Akulova, Lev Zolotukhin, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Mikhail
Ulyanov, Boris Gorbatov, Daniil Sagal, Juozas Budraitis, Vladimir Zeldin.
The story is built around one of the most tragic pages of WWII, i.e. the siege of Leningrad. The plot features the great battle for the city, the headquarters’ activities, everyday life at the front-line, and the Leningraders’ heroic labor efforts in the besieged city.
Vasilyev Brothers’ State Prize of the RSFSR to A.
Chakovsky, A. Vitol, M. Yershov, A. Nazarov, M. Ivanov, V. Basner and Y. Lebedev (1980).
Grand Prix for the film at the 26th Workers’ IFF in Czechoslovakia (1975).
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War films