When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.
Production
Frozen St. Petersburg locations sell the siege.
Acting
Sorvino commits harder than the script deserves.
Director
Aleksandr Buravskiy
Gabriel Byrne
Philip Parker
Mira Sorvino
Kate Davis
Armin Mueller-Stahl
von Leeb
Alexander Beyer
Walter Hoesdorff
Christian Berkel
Vinkelmeyer
Eckehard Hoffmann
Adolf Hitler
Olga Sutulova
Nina Tsvetkova
Aleksandr Abdulov
Chigasov
Mikhail Efremov
Omelchenko
Vladimir Ilin
Malinin
Alyona Stebunova
Sonya Krasko
Sergey Koltakov
Zhdanov
Marat Basharov
Yura Krasko
Helen Lindsay
Pristsilla Devis
Evgeniy Stychkin
Kapitsa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Buravskiy is himself from St. Petersburg and insisted on filming during actual Russian winter temperatures that matched 1941 conditions.
The film was partially funded by state television and faced criticism for softening Soviet-era bureaucracy's role in the mass deaths.
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