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...Siege of Leningrad (Lenfilm News-reels-Artkino) pictures the cost of the war to Russian civilians. It is a somber film, calculated, to humble U.S. citizens...
Siege, filmed by 22 cameramen in the first 14 of the city's 17 months of isolation, concentrates on life inside the city. The city's normal traffic slows to a halt as gas and power run out and heavy snows fall; Leningrad becomes a ghostly metropolis without moving vehicles, and masses of people trudge silently through the snowy streets, dragging their burdens on small sleds. When the water system fails, they chop holes in the ice to scoop water out of the gutters. They line up daily in long queues for their dwindling food rations; each carries...
Then the soldiers' day begins with steel-helmeted troops marching at dawn from Moscow to the battlefront. Within seconds the film plunges into the grim reality of war: a Marine, crawling across a field near Leningrad, is killed by a Nazi bullet in front of the camera. Then a plane, trailing black smoke, crashes to earth. With the terrible veracity of death the film ranges the long battlefront: a Soviet submarine sights a ship through its periscope and torpedoes her; Soviet ski troops swoop down a hill under fire and some fall. A company of guerrillas storm a village...
...planes. Shells were lobbed into the city almost daily; hardly a day or night was free of air raids. Destroyed early in the siege were warehouses packed with a three-year supply of food, hundreds of apartment houses, a mammoth modern library and scores of factories. Outside of Leningrad the Germans demolished the famous Palace of Peterhof, Russian symbol of the best in European...
Early last autumn the Red Army regained enough strength to try to free Leningrad. Under General Kiryl Meretskov an army crossed the Volkhov River, drove west against the German corridor running to Schlüsselberg, kept going until the corridor was narrowed to nine miles. On Jan. 11 General Meretskov resumed the offensive. Simultaneously another drive struck east out of Leningrad under Major General Leonid A. Govorov. When the two armies met, seven days later, Leningrad was free...