Five Days, Five Nights
6.2
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.
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Heinz-Dieter Knaup
Paul Naumann
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Vsevolod Safonov
Hauptmann Leonow
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Lev Arnshtam
Anatolij Golowanow
Dmitri Shostakovich
Vsevolod Sanayev
Sergeant Koslow
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Wolfgang Ebeling
Yu-Lan Chen
Annekathrin Bürger
Katrin
Known for
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Aleksandr Shelenkov
Evgeniya Kozyreva
Nikitina
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Lev Arnshtam Director · Wolfgang Ebeling Writer Dmitri Shostakovich Composer
Director Writer
Lev Arnshtam
Writer
Wolfgang Ebeling
Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cinematographer
Yu-Lan Chen
Cinematographer
Aleksandr Shelenkov
Editor
Tatyana Likhachyova
Production designer
Aleksei Parkhomenko
Production designer
Herbert Nitzschke
Costume designer
Walter Schulze-Mittendorff
Costume designer
Nadezhda Buzina
First release February 27, 1961 · Produced in XG, Russia · Languages German, Russian
Production
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Production
Mosfilm
Production
DEFA
Production
XG · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Пять дней – пять ночей
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
German · Russian
Release dates
Russia · February 27, 1961
Russia · February 27, 1961
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Germany
March 7, 1961
Hungary
March 29, 1962
XG
March 31, 1961 · Theatrical
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