Lendoc

Saint Petersburg Documentary Films Studio (Open Film Studio Lendoc)
Company typeCorporation
IndustryFilm industry
Founded1932
HeadquartersSaint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Websitelendocstudio.com

Saint Petersburg Documentary Films Studio or Lendoc (Russian: Лендок) is one of the largest documentary film studios in Russia, founded in 1932 as “Leningrad Newsreel Studio”.[1][2][3] The studio continued to work during the Siege of Leningrad and it produced the very first documentary about the siege “Leningrad In Fight" (Ленинград в борьбе).[4] The films produced on Lendoc have received numerous awards on Soviet and International film festivals.[5][6]

Annual output through 1980-is included 40 documentaries, 9-10 newsreels, stories for the “Daily News" (Новости дня) news program and up to 50 commercials.[7] The studio was affected by the crisis caused by the dissolution of the USSR, however it managed to overcome it and produced over 100 documentaries since 2001.[8]

  1. ^ "Киноиндустрия Российской федерации. Ноябрь 2009" [Movie industry of the Russian Federation. November 2009] (in Russian). Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Киноиндустрия Российской федерации. Ноябрь 2012" [Movie industry of the Russian Federation. November 2012] (in Russian). Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Киноиндустрия Российской федерации. Декабрь 2014" [Movie industry of the Russian Federation. April 2014] (PDF) (in Russian). Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  4. ^ Глезеров С. (2019-01-16). "Кино и блокада Ленинграда: история вопроса" [Cinema and the siege of Leningrad. historical background] (in Russian). Санкт-Петербургские ведомости. Archived from the original on 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
  5. ^ "Награды-лучшим" [Rewards are for the best] (PDF). Советская культура (in Russian). No. 64. 1960-05-21. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  6. ^ Хрущева, Л. (1981-07-03). "Киноленты о гуманизме" [Movies about humanism] (PDF). Советская культура (in Russian). No. 53. p. 7.
  7. ^ "Ленинградская Студия Документальных Фильмов" [Leningrad Documentary Films Studio] (in Russian). Кино. Энциклопедический словарь. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  8. ^ Кочетова, Юлия; Гуркаленко, Валентина. "Киностудии" [Movie Studios] (in Russian). Retrieved 30 April 2020.