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the eight-serial film tells about the legendary performance of the Seventh Symphony by Shostakovich in besieged Leningrad in the summer of 1942. The authors of the script of the series: Zoe Kudrya (“Shot”, “Executioner”, “Mosgaz”), Natalia Nazarova (“pencil”, “Petersburg. Only for love”, “Demons”), Alexey Karaulov (“Epidemic”, “Gogol”, “Call DiCaprio”). Starring: Aleksei Guskov, Aleksey Kravchenko, Elizaveta Boyarskaya Natalia Rogozhkina and others.

“the Performance of the Seventh Symphony to a Packed hall of the Leningrad Philharmonia on 9 August 1942, and broadcast on radio and became the musical symbol of the siege of Leningrad, and incredibly strong emotional shock, gave hope and strengthened the spirit of the people. This event was preceded by a huge, hard work. When the country’s leadership decided that Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony is to be performed in the besieged city, in July, a special plane from Kuibyshev, which had been evacuated composer, was delivered the score. The main conductor of the Bolshoi Symphony orchestra of Leningrad, Karl Eliasberg, was instructed to assemble the band and start rehearsing. However, musicians who can play this difficult piece, in Leningrad actually left, someone died of hunger in the city, someone was called to war and was killed at the front, and someone else continued to fight on the front line”, – tells about what will happen in the film, in the joint release of the film companies.

“the story I told Alexei Guskov. I always thought that I knew a lot about Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony and its performance in Leningrad in the summer of 1942 year. But as it turned out, after his story, I knew nothing, says the film’s Director, Alexander Kott. – Our film is not a story about Shostakovich and not about how he wrote a Symphony. Our film is about the people who sang it. The story of Karl Eliasberg, modest but ambitious, obsessed with music conductor who was assigned to collect the orchestra. Collect eighty professional musicians after the first blockade winter in Leningrad is already a feat. The orchestra is not just people sitting individually in their tool is a single organism, one breath. People in the orchestra to gel over the years, and here we were going to rehearse and to perform well, so the world will remember and understand that the city alive.”

“This is a poignant human story about war, love and great music, – says the lead actor and the film’s producer Alexei Guskov. – We are always looking for stories, able to respond to the audience, to captivate him, to allow emotional connections. I hope that “Seventh Symphony” will be just such a movie, when watching it, viewers will be able to empathize with this at the same time notnome, strong and beautiful event. We have very strong and convincing script, the work of the team of authors – it is the life and three-dimensional, living characters. In the film I play the role of conductor Karl Eliasberg. The oft-quoted phrase Mstislav Rostropovich: “Between life and death there is nothing but music” is the most accurate of the characteristics that I can give your hero”.