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Exclusive: Michael Hirst, creator of Vikings and The Tudors, is taking on one of the most epic and tragic events of World War II, the 872-day blockade of Leningrad.

He will write the series, an adaptation of Anna Reid’s 2011 book Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944, which draws mostly upon personal diaries. The project is a co-production between Range Media Partners and Svetlana and Alexey Kuzmichev’s Orangery Productions.

One of modern history’s most harrowing stories, the Siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) is one of the deadliest blockades of a city in human history. Nazi troops encircled the city two and a half months into the invasion of the Soviet Union at the height of the war, trapping everyone inside with no food, no resources, and no escape. Nearly a million civilians died – mostly from starvation.

But while this is a story about brutality and profound suffering,...

Release Date: Oct. 18, 2011

Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98

Studio: Entertainment One

Armin Mueller-Stahl is a German general in Attack on Leningrad.

Gabriel Byrne (TV’s In Treatment), Mira Sorvino (Mimic) and Armin Mueller-Stahl (Avalon) star in the movie Attack on Leningrad, an action-filled war drama based on the true story of World War II’s deadliest siege, which lasted three horrific years.

Written and directed by Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Buravsky, the film focuses on a young British journalist, Kate Davis (Sorvino), who is trapped within the devastated city of Leningrad during the infamous Nazi siege in the winter of 1941. While isolated within the famished city and separated from her lover, American journalist Philip Parker (Byrne), Kate befriends Nina Tsvetkova (Olga Sutulova, The Night is Bright), a member of the Leningrad militia, and two Russian children. Struggling to survive the brutality of the Nazi siege, together they fight for their lives amidst a landscape of death,...