| Attack on Leningrad | |
| Director: | Aleksandr Buravsky |
| Producer: | Aleksandr Buravsky Chris Curling Peter Doyle David Gamburg Andre Gromkovski Leo Zisman |
| Starring: | Gabriel Byrne Mira Sorvino Aleksandr Abdulov Vladimir Ilyin Mikhail Efremov Mikhail Trukhin Yevgeni Sidikhin Olga Sutulova Kirill Lavrov Armin Mueller-Stahl Alexander Beyer |
| Music: | Yuri Poteyenko |
| Cinematography: | Vladimir Klimov |
| Editing: | Mariya Sergeyenkova |
| Runtime: | 110 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom Russia |
| Language: | English German Russian |
Attack on Leningrad, or just Leningrad, is a 2009 war film written and directed by Aleksandr Buravsky, set during the Siege of Leningrad.[1]
In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and their troops besieged the city of Leningrad. A group of foreign journalists are flown in for one day, but one of them, Kate Davis (Mira Sorvino), is presumed dead and misses the flight out. Alone in the city, she is helped by Nina Tsvetkova (Olga Sutulova), a young and idealist police officer, and together they fight for their own and other people's survival.
According to review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, it has a critic rating of 44% based on 250+ reviews.[2]