Five Days, Five Nights

Overview

While Dresden is in ruins in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, 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 are ordered to recover the lost paintings.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 27, 1961

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German, Russian

Countries

East Germany, Germany, Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm,DEFA,DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Cast

Heinz-Dieter Knaup,Vsevolod Safonov,Vsevolod Sanayev,Annekathrin Bürger,Evgeniya Kozyreva,Marga Legal,Wilhelm Koch-Hooge,Nikolai Sergeyev,Sergey Yakovlev,Oleg Golubitskyand 20 more

Director

Lev Arnshtam

Writer

Wolfgang Ebeling,Lev Arnshtam

Cinematography

Aleksandr Shelenkov,Yu-Lan Chen

Music

Dmitri Shostakovich

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0170478