Aleksandr KOTT
Александр КОТТ
Aleksandr KOTT
Russia, 2021  
fiction
Seventh Symphony
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Седьмая симфония

 

 La Septième Symphonie

 Sedmaya simfoniya

 
Directed by : Aleksandr KOTT (Александр КОТТ)
Writing credits : Aleksey KARAULOV (Алексей КАРАУЛОВ), Aleksandr KOTT (Александр КОТТ), Natalia NAZAROVA (Наталья НАЗАРОВА)
 
Cast
Aleksey GUSKOV (Алексей ГУСЬКОВ) ...Karl Ilich Eliasberg, conductor
Aleksey KRAVCHENKO (Алексей КРАВЧЕНКО) ...Anatoli Seriogin, lieutenant of NKVD
Yelizaveta BOIARSKAIA (Елизавета БОЯРСКАЯ) ...Vera Preobrazhenskaya, flute
Natalia ROGOZHKINA (Наталья РОГОЖКИНА) ...Nadezhda Bronnikova, Eliasberg's wife
Lisa MEDVEDYEVA (Лиза МЕДВЕДЕВА)
Viktoria TOLSTOGANOVA (Виктория ТОЛСТОГАНОВА)
Timofei TRIBUNTSEV (Тимофей ТРИБУНЦЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Piotr DUKHOVSKOY (Пётр ДУХОВСКОЙ)
Production design : Sergey_3 IVANOV (Сергей_3 ИВАНОВ), Yekaterina SHAPKAYTS (Екатерина ШАПКАЙЦ)
Music : Yuri POTEYENKO (Юрий ПОТЕЕНКО)
Editing : Aleksandr CHUDINOV (Александр ЧУДИНОВ)
Produced by : Aleksey GUSKOV (Алексей ГУСЬКОВ), Sergey MELKUMOV (Сергей МЕЛЬКУМОВ), Aleksandr RODNYANSKY (Александр РОДНЯНСКИЙ)
Production : 58,5 продакшн; Нон-стоп Продакшн / 58,5 production; Non-stop Production
Release date in Russia : 08/11/2021
 

Awards :
Best Serial Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2022

Plot synopsis
Leningrad, spring 1942. After the first winter of the blockade, the conductor of the large radio symphony orchestra receives an order from the government to perform Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in the besieged city. This seems impossible: only a few musicians remain from the orchestra. Some died of hunger, others went to the front, still others disappeared. But the concert must take place and resound throughout the world so that both friends and enemies can hear: "Leningrad is alive!" To help the conductor Karl Eliasberg, KGB agent Anatoly Seryogin was dispatched. But the fate of Lieutenant Seryogin, who had lost his entire family in an air raid, had already crossed paths with Eliasberg; it was Seryogin who had led the arrest of the conductor's wife. Despite their mutual distrust and hatred for each other, the conductor and the lieutenant had to accomplish the impossible: to find the missing performers in the besieged city and to perform the premiere of the Seventh Symphony in Leningrad.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2022