Attack on Leningrad

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Attack on Leningrad
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Directed byAleksandr Buravsky
Written byAleksandr Buravsky
Chris Solimine
Produced byAleksandr Buravsky
Chris Curling
Peter Doyle
David Gamburg
Andre Gromkovski
Leo Zisman
Starring Gabriel Byrne
Mira Sorvino
Aleksandr Abdulov
Vladimir Ilyin
Mikhail Efremov
Mikhail Trukhin
Yevgeni Sidikhin
Olga Sutulova
Kirill Lavrov
Armin Mueller-Stahl Alexander Beyer
CinematographyVladimir Klimov
Edited byMariya Sergeyenkova
Music byYuri Poteyenko
Release dates
Running time
110 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Russia
LanguagesEnglish
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]

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Plot

In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and their troops besieged the city of Leningrad. A group of foreign journalists are flown in for one day, but one of them, Kate Davis (Mira Sorvino), is presumed dead and misses the flight out. 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

Reception

Critical response

According to review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, it has a critic rating of 44% based on 250+ reviews. [2]

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References

  1. "Leningrad (Attack on Leningrad) (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  2. "Rotten Tomatoes critic rating" . Retrieved 18 October 2024.