Five Days, Five Nights (1961)

7.0/10 103 min War History Drama

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…

Cast

Vsevolod Safonov

Hauptmann Leonow

Vsevolod Sanayev

Sergeant Koslow

Annekathrin Bürger

Katrin

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

Mikhail Mayorov

Erich Franz

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