Hour of courage (1985)

A drawing with views of Leningrad by the artist Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva.

A notebook with Ostroumova-Lebedeva's notes - pages are turning, large - an entry from June 22, 1941. A photograph of Ostroumova-Lebedeva.

Drawings, sketches of the artist with views of Leningrad, tanks and planes are depicted.

A view of the house on the Vyborg side, where Ostroumova-Lebedeva lived.

An old black and white photograph of the house.

Large - an entry in the notebook "Hunger!" An attic window, a long wooden table.

A watercolor by Ostroumova-Lebedeva - a room, a desk, an open window, a book on the windowsill.

In the frame - Ostroumova-Lebedeva's diary.

A panorama of a shelf in a closet, pencils, tools, a mirror, etc. are lying there, hands are taking a bundle.

The bundle unfolds - in the frame are tools for creating engravings.

Large - tools.

Panorama of the table - there are tools, boards, a close-up - a photograph of the artist.

A board with a cut-out drawing, a hand presses a sheet of paper, paints over it with a black pencil - an image of "The Bronze Horseman" appears.

A sheet with an engraving is removed from the board.

A drawing by Ostroumova-Lebedeva - boys with fishing rods near the descent to the Neva, a panorama of a bundle with tools for creating engravings and a board.

The pages of the artist's blockade diary are turned over, a concert program with a drawing by Benois is pasted in among the entries, a panorama of a table, a mirror, books.

A group black and white photograph of the Itinerant artists is reflected in the mirror.

The photograph shows Ostroumova-Lebedeva at work, a panorama of an engraving board.

In the frame there are various engraving boards with cut-out drawings.

Close-up - a kerosene lamp is lit with a match.

A lamp on a table, a panorama of postcards with views of Leningrad (drawings by Ostroumova-Lebedeva).

Panorama of a wall with portraits and paintings, a piano with books and photographs on its lid, Ostroumova-Lebedeva's niece, Natalya Pavlovna Grigorieva, sitting at a table in the room.

Grigorieva is sorting through Ostroumova-Lebedeva's letters, showing postcards that she drew.

Grigorieva is reading the letters (the text is voiced by an off-screen announcer).

Close-up - a letter-postcard in Grigorieva's hands.

The frame shows various postcards drawn by Ostroumova-Lebedeva.

Close-up - hands sorting through and looking through postcards, panorama of postcards and letters on the table.

View from the window of the wall of a house, a Leningrad courtyard, panorama of the artist's room, a painting on an easel.

In the frame - artist Vera Milyutina, sitting at a table with drawings and sketches, telling the story of the creation of the "Leningrad Album".

Close-up - hands opening the album "Greetings to the women of Leningrad", turning the pages.

Large - Vera Milyutina's face.

Large - pages with letters from English women in support of Leningrad during the siege.

A drawing by Vera Milyutina, a panorama of a photograph of the artist in her youth.

Large - Vera Milyutina's face.

Large - Milyutina is holding drawings and sketches.

A black and white photograph - "The Leningrad Album" is shown to residents of Scotland.

Copies of engravings and drawings from the "Leningrad Album".

Drawings from the "Leningrad Album".

Self-portrait of the artist Ostroumova-Lebedeva.

An entry in the artist's diary - "The war is over!"