saving leningrad

We have our big bloated military epics, the Russians have theirs. You’ll be able to see an example of the latter when Saving Leningrad is released in America this December. You know the basic beats of a historical military picture, and they do it no differently there: it’s based on a true story and concerns a disaster that our heroes have to escape and survive through. It’s September of 1941, and war has consumed most of the world (it won’t truly become World War II until America enters the battle in a few months). Leningrad is under attack, and many of its citizens flee onto an evacuation barge. But they’re no safer there…a vicious storm starts to topple the barge. But wait…there are planes on the horizon; maybe they’ve come to rescue them? …..Nope, they’ve got swastikas…. The barge sent an SOS signal but the German planes were first to arrive at the scene instead of the rescue. The barge broke into several pieces after the attack and the line