Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Markus Brandl as Fritz Fuchs
- Mercedes Müller as Olga Kvade
- Torsten Münchow as Andrei Schdanow
- Judith Neumann as Anna Fuchs
- Tino Mewes as Wolfgang Buff
- Matthias Bundschuh as Karl Eliasberg
- Florian Fischer as Nkwd Officer
- Elvinas Juodkazis as Marine
- Anja Antonowicz as Nadeshda Boronnikowa
- Florian Panzner as Schostakowitsch
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