Lasting 872 days and leaving more than one million men, women, and children dead, the Nazi Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) is considered one of the most important events of the Second World War. Despite its significance to the collective and cultural memory of the inhabitants of postwar Leningrad, later Saint Petersburg, the siege and its consequences have only recently become the object of examination from the perspective of memory studies.

Киноэпопея «Блокада» режиссера Михаила Ершова – самый масштабный проект киностудии «Ленфильм» – впервые показывает ленинградоцентричный взгляд на Великую Отечественную войну и становится главным официальным высказыванием о блокаде в 1970-е.