August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an almost impossible task: to stage the premiere of Dimitri Shostakovitch's "Leningrad Symphony". The performance became a symbol of the brief triumph of culture over the barbarism of war.
as Fritz Fuchs
as Olga Kvade
as Andrei Schdanow
as Anna Fuchs
as Wolfgang Buff
as Karl Eliasberg
as Nkwd Officer
as Marine
as Nadeshda Boronnikowa
as Schostakowitsch
as Josef Eiselt
as Vater Kvade
as Feldwebel
as Landser
as Frau Schostakowitsch
