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Attack on Leningrad
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Wikipedia article
'Attack on Leningrad', or just 'Leningrad', is a 2009 war film written and directed by Aleksandr Buravsky, set during the Siege of Leningrad.
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
* Gabriel Byrne as Phillip Parker
* Mira Sorvino as Kate Davis
* Aleksandr Abdulov as Chigasov
* Vladimir Ilyin as Malinin
* Mikhail Yefremov as Omelchenko
* Mikhail Trukhin as Vernik
* Yevgeni Sidikhin as Korneyev
* Olga Sutulova as Nina Tsvetkova
* Kirill Lavrov as Radio announcer
* Armin Mueller-Stahl as Field Marshal Von Leeb
* Alexander Beyer as Walter Hoesdorff
* Yevgeny Stychkin as Kapitsa
* Valentina Talyzina as Valentina
References
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