Blockade

Sergei Loznitsa

IndieLisboa 2006 • Laboratório

Russia, Documentary, 2005, 52′

It is a film about blockade of Leningrad within the Second World War. There are no words, there is no music, – only sounds and pictures of a dying city.

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