“Blockade” – a film at the Presidential Library’s cinema club

In the framework of events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of breaking the siege of Leningrad, January 30, 2013 at 15.00 the Presidential Library will hold a meeting of the cinema club demonstrating one of the best documentaries about the Great Patriotic War - "Blockade" by Sergei Loznitsa.

This film is more than just a story about the blockade. There are no words or music - only pictures and sounds of the dying city and untold human suffering...

The film has won awards and prizes at various festivals around the world: Russia, Ukraine, Canada, France, Spain, Poland and Israel. It contains newsreel about Leningrad of 1941-1944, the first time there are given the names of almost all the cameramen who filmed the life of the beleaguered city. - Alexander N. Ivanov, the oldest documentary cameraman who was directly involved in the creation of the newsreel about the besieged city, has been invited to comment on the archival materials.

At the meeting of the cinema club there will be also featured well-known around the world photos of Sergey Larenkov "Relation of Times." This unique photo project about life in the besieged city will allow seeing the history and archival materials through the prism of modern photography. Founder of re-photography style, Sergey Larenkov created his photographic works in memory of the relatives, who had survived the difficult years of the blockade.

Meetings of the film club began in 2012 and became a tradition. This joint project of the Presidential Library and the studio "Lennauchfilm" is a discussion forum for the discussion and promotion of documentary and educational films that reveal the history of Russian statehood.

Taditionally, the cinema club meeting will be broadcast live at the web site www.prlib.ru so that this interesting meeting may be joined by Internet users not only in Russia but also abroad.