''Blockade'' is a 2005 documentary film by

Sergei Loznitsa Sergei Vladimirovich Loznitsa ( be, Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Лазніца, russian: Сергей Владимирович Лозница, uk, Сергій Володимирович Лозниця; born 5 September 1964) is a Uk ...

. The film was shot with no dialogue and consists of black and white footage shot during the

Siege of Leningrad The siege of Leningrad (russian: links=no, translit=Blokada Leningrada, Блокада Ленинграда; german: links=no, Leningrader Blockade; ) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet Union, So ...

. It has a run time of 52 minutes.

Reception

''Blockade'' has a score of 70 out of 100 on

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, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".https://www.metacritic.com/movie/blockade

References

'A Chronicle for Our Time, Loznitsa's ''Blockade'' - Denise J. Youngblood, ''Russian Review 66'', October 2007

External links

Icarus films

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