Rent Battle of Leningrad (2019)
3.5 of 5 from 56 ratings
1h 34min
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- Synopsis:
- Dunkirk meets titanic in this gripping true story about the barge 752' tragedy during WWII. September 1941. A barge evacuating people from sieged Leningrad, gets caught in a dramatic and violent storm. Terrified and fighting for life, the boat's 1,000 evacuees descend even further in to hell , when, instead of rescuers, the boat is targeted and attacked by Nazi war planes. 'Battle of Leningrad' is a charged look at the true violence and tragedy of World War II.
- Actors:
- Andrey Mironov-Udalov, Maria Melnikova, Anastasiya Melnikova, Gela Meskhi, Valeriy Degtyar, Pavel Druzhinin, Igor Golovin, Nikolay Gorshkov, Mariya Kapustinskaya, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Ivan Lyrchikov, Evgeniya Lyubimova, Mikhail Morozov, Vladimir Postnikov, Inga Strelkova-Oboldina, Natalya Tkachenko, Elena Zimina
- Directors:
- Aleksey Kozlov
- Producers:
- Aleksey Kozlov, Arkady Fateev
- Writers:
- Aleksey Kozlov
- Aka:
- Saving Leningrad / Spasti Leningrad
- Studio:
- Signature Entertainment
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama
- Countries:
- Russia
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Reviews (1) of Battle of Leningrad
Confused and Confusing Amateurish Russian War Movie - Battle of Leningrad review by PV
This has been promoted as the Russian 'Titanic'? Seriously? Maybe a Poundland Titanic, I suppose...
This is a confused and confusing very unfocused and amateurish film indeed and with cardboard cutout characters - and if you cannot feel for the characters then why care what happens to them?
Some of this is German Nazis versus Russian soldiers on land. Then it is all about Leningrad women and children escaping the besieged city via leaky rafts which are then attacked by German planes. Lots of bangs and explosions does not a decent film make.
And when we have Germans on the screen, there are subtitles in English - but Russian viewers do not get subtitles or even dubbing. Nope, just some bloke in a studio speaking what various Nazis say into a microphone. This is he cheapo option - I saw in in the 90s on Polish and Czech TV, where a Czech bloke in a studio translated the English words of David Attenborough or whoever whose voice i could just hear in the background with animal noises. It is the low budget options; subtitles next; and dubbing the most expensive. It really does not work.
There are better films about the awful siege of Leningrad which causes mass starvation. Watch them - not this.
2 stars for the effort and decent war scenes.
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