A Siege Diary

Special Event

Director: Andrey Zaytsev

Russia / 2020 / 118´

 

The film tells about the first, most difficult winter of the siege of Leningrad, in which most people died of hunger. February 1942, severe frosts below minus 30°C, terrible hunger, no water supply and electricity, transportation collapse, Leningrad is covered with snow and paralyzed. A young woman, Olga, walks across the city to her father. She has just buried her husband and is sure that she will soon die of hunger too. She wants to see her dad for the last time, say goodbye to him and ask him to forgive her.

Screenplay: Andrey Zaytsev 

Producer: Andrey Zaytsev, Olga Granina 

Cinematographer: Irina Uralskaya 

Art Director: Iraida Schultz 

Editing: Andrey Zaytsev 

Cast: Olga Ozollapinya, Sergey Dreyden

 

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