A Siege Diary
2020 Russian film
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A Siege Diary (Russian: Блокадный дневник, romanized: Blokadnyy dnevnik) is a 2020 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zaytsev.[1][2] The film is the winner of the Moscow International Film Festival.[3][4]
- Olga Granina
- Andrey Zaytsev
- Olga Ozollapinya
- Sergey Dreyden
- Andrey Shibarshin
- Darya Rumyantseva
- Alexandra Granina
- Vasilina Makovtseva
- Sonya Uritskaya
- Olga Granina
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| Блокадный дневник | |
| Directed by | Andrey Zaytsev |
| Written by | Andrey Zaytsev |
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| Cinematography | Irina Uralskaya |
| Edited by | Andrey Zaytsev |
Production company | September Film Studio |
| Distributed by | INSIDE DSTR |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Plot
The film takes place at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in snow-covered Leningrad. A young woman named Olga buried her husband, she thinks that she too did not have long to live and she went to her father to say goodbye to him.[5]
Cast
- Olga Ozollapinya as Olga
- Sergey Dreyden as Olga's Father
- Andrey Shibarshin as Lieutenant Gunther
- Darya Rumyantseva as Gretchen
- Alexandra Granina as Olga as a child
- Vasilina Makovtseva as Lyuba
- Sonya Uritskaya as ice cream girl
- Olga Granina as Olga's mother
- Aleksey Filimonov as gravedigger
- Polina Filonenko as evil vigilante
Critical response
In her positive review, Ekaterina Barabash noted: "The film's main focus is the faces. There are quite a few of them, they follow one another, and the camera focuses on each character the heroine encounters".[6] At the same time, Victor Matizen was dissatisfied with the film: "The inner world of the siege survivor is reduced to simple, incidental observations, containing nothing that hasn't been previously shown in numerous 'siege' films. Although there is some similarity: the similarities between Zaytsev's siege survivors and the zombies from George Romero's apocalyptic fantasies".[7]
