In Popular Culture
In the Ken Russell 1967 film Billion Dollar Brain, music from the Leningrad Symphony accompanies the failed military invasion of the then Latvian Soviet Republic by Texas millionaire Midwinter (a pivotal scene reflecting the Battle of the Neva from Aleksandr Nevsky). Incidentally, earlier on, Michael Caine as Harry Palmer attends the end of a concert of what is claimed to be the Leningrad Symphony, whereas in fact the finale from Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony is heard.
The German hip hop musician Peter Fox used a theme from the fourth movement in his song "Alles neu" ("Everything New").
Read more about this topic: Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)
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