Attack on Leningrad, or just Leningrad, is a 2009 war film written and directed by Aleksandr Buravsky, set during the Siege of Leningrad.
Plot 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 idealistic police officer, and together they fight for their own and other people's survival.
Cast Gabriel Byrne as Phillip Parker Mira Sorvino as Kate Davis Aleksandr Abdulov as Chigasov Vladimir Ilyin as Malinin Mikhail Yefremov as Omelchenko Marat Basharov as Yura Krasko Mikhail Trukhin as Vernik Yevgeni Sidikhin as Korneyev Olga Sutulova as Nina Tsvetkova Kirill Lavrov as Radio announcer Armin Mueller-Stahl as Field Marshal Von Leeb Alexander Beyer as Walter Hoesdorff Yevgeny Stychkin as Kapitsa Valentina Talyzina as Valentina Ecki Hoffmann (Ekard Khoffman) as Adolf Hitler (Gitler)
Reception Critical response According to review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, it has a critic rating of 44% based on 250+ reviews.
The film was nominated for the Warsaw Award (Aleksandr Buravskiy) at the 2007 Warsaw International Film Festival, and Best Cinematography (Vladimir Klimov) at the 2008 Russian Guild of Cinematographers awards, but did not win either.
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