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Release date: 2026
Genre: drama, history, war
Duration: 103 min
Genre: drama, history, war
Duration: 103 min
Description:
A wartime drama set during the Siege of Leningrad, where starving civilians risk their lives to save a zoo’s animals, clinging to humanity in the face of death.
December 1941. Leningrad. A soldier is assigned to guard the city zoo in the midst of World War II. There, among starving workers and dying animals, he forms an unexpected bond with Bella the hippo. As the siege tightens, this fragile connection becomes his only anchor, forcing him to choose between survival and compassion in a world falling apart.
A wartime drama set during the Siege of Leningrad, where starving civilians risk their lives to save a zoo’s animals, clinging to humanity in the face of death.
December 1941. Leningrad. A soldier is assigned to guard the city zoo in the midst of World War II. There, among starving workers and dying animals, he forms an unexpected bond with Bella the hippo. As the siege tightens, this fragile connection becomes his only anchor, forcing him to choose between survival and compassion in a world falling apart.
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