Questions to and from filmmakers Are there no other, less historical and documentary ones, where your “sensing” of the event, catching the character of the action, etc., etc., is necessary? This plot betrays your limitation to cognition and your ability to absorb the sense of the truth of the moment, in transmitting it to the recipient (the viewer). Is it Vladimir Semyonovich, in his poems/songs?
How likely is there to be an episode in your picture?
I will reveal the question: how likely is the convergence at one point in time-space of a girl and her dog, a child of military age in besieged Leningrad, if ...
Children left without parents were collected in orphanages (more than 90,000 people), in school (a girl of apparently school age), of which on May 4, 1942. went a little more than 63,000 until the summer of 1943 (the time of the termination of the evacuation) was taken about 320 000 children out of 470 000 trapped in the blockade (the number is proportional to the ratio removed all / were all people, in fact, probably more children were evacuated as dependents), the remaining children were busy with various things from work at the machine to the clubs ... (1500 children, walk in the street, etc.).
A dog that survived until 1943... No matter how much the landlady likes her. Children from hunger gnaw and bite off their fingers... to the elbows! There's a dog! I wonder if the director was hungry for a day.
About the loss of “human appearance” by hungry people. It is difficult here, but cannibals were examined during and after the famine of 1920-1922, and after fattening, and the cure of “accompanying” diseases, abnormalities in the psyche and any deviations in behavior.
Citizen authors! Live your emotions where you need it and when, but use another function of the body – the mind!
Suggestion - to add the film genre - author's fantasy!