Our New York! Sergey Shnurov and "Leningrad" gathered a full hall. Documentary film Sergey Loznitsa about the blockade of Leningrad TV series about blockade with Sergey Corn

Host: Sergey Chan
Director: Igor Bezrukov

Documentary four-sieves film - a unique project of the fifth channel: For the first time in the post-war years, the audience of all generations will receive the opportunity to learn the tragic and heroic details of one of the greatest battles of World War II - the battle for Leningrad.

Interesting archival materials, published and unpublished German sources, personal evidence of veterans and participants in battle, materials enthusiasts of historical reconstructions, collectors of weapons and military costume.
Historians from Russia, Finland and Germany took part in the work on the series. The shooting was conducted on the places of fighting in Pskov, Tikhvin, Tsarskoye village, on Pulkovsky heights.
The role of the lead in the series is the rock musician Sergei Cers. View of the representative of the generation of grandchildren and great-grand students Great War gives a difficult conversation about our military history a new meaning and new relevance.

"Leningrad Front." The first series "Invasion"

"Leningrad Front." The second series "Enemy at the gate"

Time actions - autumn 1941. Capturing Peterhof, coming to Pulkovo and Neva, the Germans decide not to take the city by storm, but to destroy it with hunger and cold, then rob and explode. But this plan was constructed in December 1941 by the Soviet offensive under Tikhvin, the first victory of the Red Army over the Wehrmacht. There is an opportunity to open the ice road of life.

"Leningrad Front." Third Series "Breakthrough"

Actions time - winter 1941-Winter 1943. Apoogy blockades, attempts to break through her, Nevsky Piglet, the death of the second shock army Andrei Vlasov and, finally, the Operation "Spark" is a breakthrough of Leningrad blockades in January 1943.

"Leningrad Front." 4th series "Liberation"

It is believed that Leningrad was not under the occupation. But it is not so. The German "new order" existed in Pushkin, Pavlovsk, Peterhof, and we can imagine to happen if the Nazis really found themselves in the city. However, the occupiers are different. Russian life under the Germans, Spaniards, Finns. Final - January 1944 fighting, the defeat of the North Army Group, the full liberation of Leningrad from the blockade.

You can experience a kind of aesthetic shock on almost a watch documentary "Blockad" Sergey Loznitsa, mounted from a practically no visible newsreel. Or rather, it is presented in this way (the image is specifically cleaned on the computer, the frames are skillfully extended, incredible chamber panoramas are created from the connection of different plans), which arises a complete impression of the first acquaintance with such material.

But, first of all, it strikes not so much the naturalness and authenticity of the existence of people on the screen, as not yet expected concentration and even some meditativeness, as if it seems not about a nightmarish page in the history of a relatively recent World War II, but about the separated whole centuries from us epic Event.

And most of the screen time, we see by no means how the townspeople are trying to survive in blockade conditions. But the rich cinematic memory is helpfully throws us literally imprinted in consciousness images with frozen corpses on snowy streets and barely moving pitiful figures of those who still managed to stay alive in the middle of a cold hell. On the contrary, there is a paradoxical impression that Leningraders are trying to just live - a common household life, from day to day, from month to a month, only forced to adapt to changing external circumstances. First, it is observed with curiosity of passersby for the anti-aircraft settlements suitable on the streets, the aerostats delivered to the city of the city or follow the small column of German prisoners of war, and then, as winter approaches, faced with more cruel deprivation of blockades.

And there is a rare feeling of almost physical involvement of what is happening when it is universally comprehended, as the ring around the city slowly and imperceptibly compressed, and life still continued to flow and ripped, like a beating fountain from blown water pipe Or a stream among the snowdrifts from which the townspeople draw water for their master's needs. Thoughtfully selected chronicle, which, apparently, was filmed by operators at his own peril and risk, at the destruction of the soul, without much hope to see it in the releases of the vannels, where extremely polar propaganda plans were welcomed, designed to inspire the Soviet pathos of persistent defenders of the Fatherland or cause a fierce anger to ruthless The enemy is now affected by contrast.

The quieter and calmer the behavior of people on the screen, even at the time of the bombing, fires, winterings, immediately in the face of relentless death, the worst of the impression of the "existential tragedy", experienced by them during the blockade. War as such is located somewhere outside of this world, but "here and now" it is much more terrible and absurd, because a quiet sap is invaded, a sinus tricks, penetrates like a plague, hungry and cold more. The border situation between the Being and Neva is aggravated by the fact that the city fell into the drone, it turned out to be in a hopeless trap, sentenced to slow death, as a casual torture, when, for example, on heads down the hanged, bags with rats.

The analogy with this is also not accidental, because the film ends by no means salute about the removal of the blockade, but the scene of the public execution, when the huge crowd gathered in the square silently looks at the boring corpses. And when you already think about the theme of retribution in the expansion plan, assuming the possibility of various interpretations of the final (in the end, not only the Germans are guilty of the siege of Leningrad), the annoying inclusion of a single titer that brings the event to a specific date (the sentence is carried out in the end of January 1946, that is, in the second anniversary of the removal of the blockade), makes it doubt at the last point of the narrative.

However, "Blockada" teaches a real lesson to play movies not only in the degree of incredible naturalness and practically unattainable hypereality of what is happening, but first of all - by epitality of thinking. In this tape, there is not a word at all, and even the city is not named, as the war is not named. No author's concept is imposed in alternating frames, in addition to the fact that we ourselves should extract from visible on the screen, if, of course, we wish to do this without being finally spoiled through the fake and reheated cinema (including many documentary paintings), allegedly equipped with all sorts discourses and simulats. After all, in gradually the dead and freezing space, life is still growing - and black and white, almost a graphic image with a suddenly opening depth of the frame and the striking urban panoramas gives rise to a delightful feeling of "captured time", which does not disappear anywhere, and there are forever.

Our New York! Yesterday, Sergey Cords and the Leningrad grouping collected a full hall in New York. This, of course, is incredible when you look at the work of the team and at the tempo in which she is annealing. This year, almost 100 concerts and corporate events! On Thursday there was a concert in New York, on Friday - in Toronto, and on Sunday will be in San Francisco. Everywhere the full halls, all the tickets are sold everywhere. It is absolutely not clear how in such a pace it is possible to produce fantastic quality every time.

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What is the quality? Yesterday Gallery at the Madison Square Garden Theater, consisting of solid from Aboriginal Brighton Beach, got up and began to dance! You do not seem miracle? Yes, you just do not know these people. The last time they got up in the hall at the XXVII Congress Congress in the 86th year of the last century. I did not believe in the beginning that it would work out. Hundreds of people sat with gray faces and cautiously clapped in their hands. As they usually clap at the concerts of Willy Tokarev or Igor Sarukhanov. Their faces did not express any emotions, as if they came to interrogation to the investigator. They look at the scene as the carps in the store look at the buyer. Someone haked up the leg - it was a strong emotion on the rear rows. Someone looked at the scene blankly and asked a neighbor: "Vitya, we kind of buy tickets! Sho is it going on? " Vitya shrugged, but the leg continued to juggy. And in an hour everyone got up and raised their hands! Is it not a miracle?

01. In the dressing room of the Madison-Square-Garden Theater atmosphere of the holiday in a close quadshka Soviet Khrushchev. It is possible to squeeze between people, but with great difficulty. Someone does not fit and stands in the corridor. On the walls, temporary pointers on the buffet, scene and smoking. In the States with smoking strictly, so you have to go out.

02. Matilda Cord is dancing in the depths of the scene and still has time to broadcast in instagram and take photos.

03. On the stage in general, there are quite a lot of people.

04. There are no places on the dance floor. By the way, remember the song "on the dance floor of the tears of love and pain," then she was removed from the canal Leningrad. What is the reason?

05. Leningrad is a real holiday. An incredible atmosphere in the hall.

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07. By the way, I do not understand how at the Leningrad concert you can sit in a chair. And some sit.

08. Gone heat.

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10. Turnstanding torque The concert was the song "Tits". It was on her who broke the aborigines from the gallery and went to dance.

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12. Hey! Where are your hands? Bates in your hands, bitch!

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14. Sitting still swing.

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19. Matilda leads online in Instagram, but in Moscow 4 o'clock in the morning and everyone slept)

20. The cord is generally very cool with the hall works. I constantly pulls someone, communicates, keeps people in Tonus, so as not to be up with the phones. With phones at all trouble. Each second strives to keep broadcasts, make pictures and urgently divide what is happening through the social network. And it is instead of dancing.

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24. The hall for 5600 seats was complete.

25. People came prepared)

26. By the way, in spite of the established image almost no one thumps) Although there was a little alcohol in the dressing room, but he drank him.

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29. When the concert has already ended, in the dressing room, the cords looked at the watch: "There is another 5 minutes! And let's go "Bag" Play! " And went, and played.

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31. In the whole hall there was only one person who had stood the whole concert as a garden gnome. No emotions.