Blockade

Russia2005documentary52'

This film, made in the found footage technique, is one of the most important achievements of this kind of documentary filmmaking. Archival photographs from the siege of Leningrad by the Third Reich army were edited and revived thanks to the suggestive soundtrack. Silence, interrupted with single sounds, fills the unsettling atmosphere of the Soviet city under siege. The soundscape of Leningrad is made of a combination of fear, hunger and awaiting the unknown. The director gradually doses terror, constructing one-of-a-kind report from the city under siege.