The Siege: The Luga Defense Line

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.

• Venyamin BasnerOriginal Music Composer
• Aleksandr ChakovskiyScreenplay
• Mikhail YershovDirector
• Arnold VitolScreenplay

• Yuriy SolominAleksei Zvyagintsev
• Yevgeni LebedevIvan Korolyov
• Irina AkulovaVera Korolyova
• Lev ZolotukhinColonel Pavel Korolyov
• Vladislav StrzhelchikFyodor Valitskiy
• Aleksandr RazinAnatoliy Valitskiy
• Boris GorbatovJoseph Stalin
• Sergei KharchenkoZhdanov
• Daniil SagalMarshal Voroshilov
• Vasiliy MininMarshal Timoshenko
• Valentin AbramovShaposhnikov, chief of staff
• Anatoliy VerbitskiyNikolay Kuznetsov