Movie·1961·1h 43m
Five Days, Five Nights
Directed By
Heinz Thiel
Country
East Germany
Language
German
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The Story
Original title: Пять дней – пять ночей
Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage, Fünf Nächte) takes place in Dresden in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. While Dresden is in ruins, over two thousand paintings by artists including Rembrandt, Raphael, Rubens, Giorgione, and Vermeer have disappeared from the city’s Old Masters Picture Gallery. Red Army captain Leonov and his soldiers have been ordered to recover the lost paintings. During the next five days, Dresden’s residents join the search for the collection. A secret Nazi document offers a first lead…
Written By
Wolfgang Ebeling
Cinematography
Yu-Lan Chen
Music
Dmitri Shostakovich
Editor
Tatyana Likhachyova
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
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Cast
Heinz-Dieter Knaup
Paul Naumann
Vsevolod Safonov
Hauptmann Leonow
Vsevolod Sanayev
Sergeant Koslow
Annekathrin Bürger
Katrin
Jewgenija Kosirjewa
Nikitina
Marga Legal
Luise Rank
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
Erich Braun
Nikolai Sergeyev
Schagin
Sergey Yakovlev
soviet officer
Oleg Golubitsky
Adjutant
Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Terentjew
Vladimir Pitsek
Galkin
Nikolay Smorchkov
Tkatschenko
Gennadiy Yukhtin
Strokow
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Nikolay Pogodin
Rudakow
Barbara Dittus
Raimund Schelcher
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Crew
Lev Arnshtam
Director, Writer
Heinz Thiel
Director
Yu-Lan Chen
Director of Photography
Aleksandr Shelenkov
Director of Photography
Anatolij Golowanow
Director
Wolfgang Ebeling
Writer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Original Music Composer
Tatyana Likhachyova
Editor
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