Leningrad Symphony

Documentary, Drama, War

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Carsten Gutschmidt

Status Released

Release Date 2017-11-03

Storyline

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.