Leningrad Symphony

Nov 3, 2017

★ 8.0

Overview

August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an almost impossible task: to stage the premiere of Dimitri Shostakovitch's "Leningrad Symphony". The performance became a symbol of the brief triumph of culture over the barbarism of war.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

War

Production Companies

Beetz Brothers Film Production

Leningrad Symphony Trailers

Cast

Fritz Fuchs

Markus Brandl

Olga Kvade

Mercedes Müller

Andrei Schdanow

Torsten Münchow

Anna Fuchs

Judith Neumann

Wolfgang Buff

Tino Mewes

Karl Eliasberg

Matthias Bundschuh

Nkwd Officer

Florian Fischer

Marine

Elvinas Juodkazis

Nadeshda Boronnikowa

Anja Antonowicz

Schostakowitsch

Florian Panzner

Josef Eiselt

Leon Hoge

Vater Kvade

Hendrik Massute

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