BLOCKADE

BLOKADA

By Sergei LOZNITSA

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Documentary - Completed 2005

The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city.

    • Year of production
    • 2005
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • RUSSIA
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 52 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sergei LOZNITSA
    • Writer(s)
    • Sergei LOZNITSA
    • Producer(s)
    • Vyacheslav TELNOV (St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio)
    • Synopsis
    • This is a documentary about the Leningrad blockade that took place in 1941 – 1944, during the Second World War. The film does not have words or music, only images, sounds of the dying city and intolerable suffering of the people… In just a few years, a colossal volume of work has been done. For the first time, all the video material shot in 1941 – 1944 about Leningrad was assembled, processed and restored, almost all the cameramen were named, the original sound of this period was restored and recorded.

      "NIKA" National academy prize for best documentary film 2005
      Arie & Bozena Zweig Innovation Award Chicago International Documentary Film Festival 2007
      Best Documentary Film from archive Jerusalem International Film Festival 2006
      Gold Dragon International Krakow Short Film Festival 2006
      Grand Prix International Film Festival "Kontakt" Kiev 2005
      Second Prize International Film Festival Madrid 2006
      St. Petersburg’s Government prix 2005
      The Lavr National Awards for Best Documentary 2006