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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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
Cast & crew
Markus BrandlFritz Fuchs
Mercedes MüllerOlga Kvade
Torsten MünchowAndrei Schdanow
Judith NeumannAnna Fuchs
Tino MewesWolfgang Buff
Matthias BundschuhKarl Eliasberg
Florian FischerNkwd Officer
Anja AntonowiczNadeshda Boronnikowa
Florian PanznerSchostakowitsch
Hendrik MassuteVater KvadeExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Christian Frey
- Director
- Carsten Gutschmidt
- Director
- Christian Frey
- Producer
- Reinhardt Beetz