The Siege: The Luga Defense Line

The Siege: The Luga Defense Line

Part of The Siege of Leningrad

1974•5.3/10

WarDramaHistory

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5.3/10(7)

In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced units of the front to withdraw, and on July 9, Pskov was also abandoned. The battles in the Luga direction held back the enemy. The first attacks of the Germans, intending to cross the Luga line on the move, were repulsed with heavy losses for them.

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Production

Lenfilm

Language

RU

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Yuriy Solomin

Yuriy Solomin

Aleksei Zvyagintsev

Yevgeni Lebedev

Yevgeni Lebedev

Ivan Korolyov

Irina Akulova

Irina Akulova

Vera Korolyova

Lev Zolotukhin

Lev Zolotukhin

Colonel Pavel Korolyov

Vladislav Strzhelchik

Vladislav Strzhelchik

Fyodor Valitskiy

Aleksandr Razin

Aleksandr Razin

Anatoliy Valitskiy

Boris Gorbatov

Boris Gorbatov

Joseph Stalin

Sergei Kharchenko

Sergei Kharchenko

Zhdanov

Daniil Sagal

Daniil Sagal

Marshal Voroshilov

Vasiliy Minin

Vasiliy Minin

Marshal Timoshenko

Valentin Abramov

Valentin Abramov

Shaposhnikov, chief of staff

Anatoliy Verbitskiy

Anatoliy Verbitskiy

Nikolay Kuznetsov

Mikhail Ulyanov

Mikhail Ulyanov

Georgiy Zhukov

Roman Gromadskiy

Roman Gromadskiy

Aleksey Kuznetsov

Konstantin Malakhov

Konstantin Malakhov

General Popov

V. Voronov

Voronov, Colonel General of Artillery

Radij Afanasyev

Lindeman

Vladimiras Lido

Vladimiras Lido

Gorodetskiy

Yuri Kuranin

Yevstigneyev, chief of the intelligence dep. of the front HQ

Jonas Lalas

Boris Bychevskiy, chief of engineering troops

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