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Five Days, Five Nights (1961)
Directed by Lev Arnshtam, Heinz Thiel, Anatolij Golowanow
Overview
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…
Length 103 minutes
Actors
Heinz-Dieter Knaup | Vsevolod Safonov | Vsevolod Sanayev | Annekathrin Bürger | Jewgenija Kosirjewa | Marga Legal | Wilhelm Koch-Hooge | Nikolai Sergeyev | Sergey Yakovlev | Oleg Golubitsky | Pyotr Lyubeshkin | Vladimir Pitsek | Nikolay Smorchkov | Gennadiy Yukhtin | Aleksandr Demyanenko | Nikolay Pogodin | Barbara Dittus | Raimund Schelcher