Once There Was a Girl

Movie · 1h 12m

Starring Nina Ivanova, Natalya Zashchipina, Ada Vojtsik, Vera Altayskaya

Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.