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Leningrad — Where the Story Was Set

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A 2009 Russian-British film set during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, following a British journalist trapped in the city as Soviet and German forces clash and civilians starve. Based on real accounts of the longest siege in modern warfare, in which over one million civilians died.

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Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia

The 2009 Russian film follows a Soviet female soldier and a British journalist trapped inside besieged Leningrad — the city surrounded by German forces for 8...

The Siege of Leningrad lasted from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944 — 872 days. Approximately 800,000 civilians died of starvation, cold and bombardment, more than all British and American WWII deaths combined. The...

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