Leningrad
2009 · Movie · PG-13 · 120 min · ★ 5.5 · 48% critics
During the 1941 siege of Leningrad, a foreign reporter is left behind after an air raid and must survive inside a starving, bombed city. With help from a young police officer, she faces danger, hard choices, and the daily struggle to stay alive.
Based on Q18431378
Also known as Attack on Leningrad
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Details
- Years
- 2009
- Release date
- 2009-01-01
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Critic score
- 48/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.5/10 (97 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a wartime survival story with some action but more focus on hardship and personal dilemmas, somewhat in the vein of Behind Enemy Lines; Not for you if you want nonstop battle scenes.
Pros: siege survival focus; some strong war scenes; food-crisis angle | Cons: slow pacing; uneven acting; low-budget feel
Themes
- journalist
- world war ii
- wolf's lair
- st. petersburg, russia
- restaurant critic
- siege
- bomb alarm
Cast & crew
Gabriel Byrne
as Philip Parker
Mira Sorvino
as Kate Davis
Armin Mueller-Stahl
as von Leeb
Alexander Beyer
as Walter Hoesdorff
Christian Berkel
as Vinkelmeyer
Eckehard Hoffmann
as Adolf Hitler
Olga Sutulova
as Nina Tsvetkova
Aleksandr Abdulov
as Chigasov
Mikhail Efremov
as Omelchenko
Vladimir Ilin
as Malinin
Directed by Aleksandr Buravskiy