900 days of hell, one observatory, zero surrender.
Autumn 1941. German tank troops are making another attempt to break through to the Uritsk and Pulkovo Heights. During heavy fighting, Soviet troops managed to stop the offensive of fascist tanks one and a half kilometers south of the Pulkovo Observatory. The 900 days of the blockade and the incredible courage of the Soviet people were approaching ...
Cinematography
Bleached Leningrad skies that swallow tanks whole.
Practical Effects
Real T-34s and Panzers, no CGI cowards here.
Score
Shostakovich-adjacent brass that rattles your ribs.
Director
Mikhail Yershov
Yuriy Solomin
Alexey Zvyagintsev, Major
Yevgeni Lebedev
Ivan Maksimovich Korolev
Irina Akulova
Vera Koroleva
Lev Zolotukhin
Pavel Maksimovich Korolev
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Fedor Vasilievich Valitsky
Boris Gorbatov
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Sergei Kharchenko
Andrey Alexandrovich Zhdanov
Daniil Sagal
Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov
Vasiliy Minin
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko
Valentin Abramov
Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov
Anatoliy Verbitskiy
Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov
Mikhail Ulyanov
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov
Roman Gromadskiy
Alexey Alexandrovich Kuznetsov
Konstantin Malakhov
Markian Mikhailovich Popov
Stanislav Fesjunov
Ivan Ivanovich Fedyuninsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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