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 who see it.
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...
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