Five Days, Five Nights (1961)
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.
Director: Lev Arnshtam
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Heinz-Dieter Knaup as Paul Naumann |
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Vsevolod Safonov as Hauptmann Leonow |
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Vsevolod Sanayev as Sergeant Koslow |
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Annekathrin Bürger as Katrin |
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Evgeniya Kozyreva as Nikitina |
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Evgeniya Kozyreva as |
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Marga Legal as Luise Rank |
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Wilhelm Koch-Hooge as Erich Braun |
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Nikolai Sergeyev as Schagin |
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Sergey Yakovlev as soviet officer |
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Oleg Golubitsky as Adjutant |
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Pyotr Lyubeshkin as Terentjew |
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Vladimir Pitsek as Galkin |
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Nikolay Smorchkov as Tkatschenko |
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Gennadiy Yukhtin as Strokow |
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Aleksandr Demyanenko as |
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Nikolay Pogodin as Rudakow |
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Barbara Dittus as |
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Raimund Schelcher as |
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Mikhail Mayorov as |
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Erich Franz as |
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Jochen Bley as |
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Heinz Thiel as |
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Ruth Kommerell as |
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Monika Lennartz as |
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Otto Dierichs as |
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Hans Flössel as |
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Erich Mirek as |
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Peter Paul Goes as |
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Nikolai Aparin as |
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Andrey Demyanov as Alyosha |
| Directing | Lev Arnshtam | Director |
| Camera | Yu-Lan Chen | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Aleksandr Shelenkov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Wolfgang Ebeling | Writer |
| Writing | Lev Arnshtam | Writer |
| Sound | Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Aleksei Parkhomenko | Production Design |
| Editing | Tatyana Likhachyova | Editor |
| Directing | Heinz Thiel | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Anatoliy Golovanov | Assistant Director |
| Art | Herbert Nitzschke | Production Design |
| Sound | Bernd Gerwien | Sound Director |
| Sound | Boris Volsky | Sound Director |