Leningrad: The 900 Days (Johnsonverse)

Leningrad: The 900 Days is a 1992 epic war drama film directed by Sergio Leone. The film concerns a survivor (Robert de Niro) struggling through the Siege of Leningrad in nearly 900 days during World War II, while he falls in love with a female civilian. 
==Plot==
The film begins with d in medias res as the camera goes from focusing on a Soviet hiding from the Nazis' artillery fire to panning hundreds of feet away to show the German Army Panzer divisions approaching the walls of the city. Then an American photographer on assignment becoming trapped in Leningrad as the German Luftwaffe begin to bombard the city. 
He becomes romantically involved with a Soviet woman, whom he later impregnates, as they attempt to survive the prolonged siege and the secret police, because relationships with foreigners are forbidden. 
==Cast==
*Robert De Niro as TBA.
==Production==
===Development===
While finishing work on Once Upon a Time in America in 1982, Leone was impressed with Harrison Salisbury's non-fiction book The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, and he planned on adapting the book as a war epic, though no formal script had been completed or leaked.
===Filming===
On May 2, 1989, Sergio Leone was signed to work on the project. Shooting begin around Leningrad and the countrysides in May 4, 1990 for a 14 month period, and it was concluded in July 8, 1991. The consturcted the sets to represent the war era of Leningrad.
=== Casting ===
Robert de Niro was cast to be a sieger.
==Release==
Leningrad: The 900 Days premiered in Moscow and Leningrad on November 30, 1992. It also premeired in New York City, and Rome on December 2, 1992. The film was theatrically released on December 11, 1992 in North America, Russia and it former states of USSR, and Italy.
==Reception==
===Box office===
===Critical response===
The film received critically acclaim.
=== Accolades ===
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