A Siege Diary

A Siege Diary is a 2020 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zaytsev. The film is the winner of the Moscow [International Film Festival].

Plot

The film takes place at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in snow-covered Leningrad. A young woman named Olga buried her husband, she thinks that she too did not have long to live and she went to her father to say goodbye to him.

Critical response

In her positive review, Ekaterina Barabash noted: "The film's main focus is the faces. There are quite a few of them, they follow one another, and the camera focuses on each character the heroine encounters". At the same time, Victor Matizen was dissatisfied with the film: "The inner world of the siege survivor is reduced to simple, incidental observations, containing nothing that hasn't been previously shown in numerous 'siege' films. Although there is some similarity: the similarities between Zaytsev's siege survivors and the zombies from George Romero's apocalyptic fantasies".