Five Days, Five Nights

Five Days, Five Nights

103 mins | War, History | Feb. 27, 1961

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…

Five Days, Five Nights

103 mins | War, History | Feb. 27, 1961

Five Days, Five Nights
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…
Producers Mosfilm, DEFA
Original title Pyat dney - pyat nochey
Directors Anatolij Golowanow, Heinz Thiel, Lev Arnshtam
Writers Lev Arnshtam, Wolfgang Ebeling

Cast

Heinz-Dieter Knaup

as Paul Naumann

Vsevolod Safonov

as Hauptmann Leonow

Vsevolod Sanayev

as Sergeant Koslow

Jewgenija Kosirjewa

as Nikitina

Marga Legal

as Luise Rank

Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

as Erich Braun

Nikolai Sergeyev

as Schagin

Sergey Yakovlev

as Soviet officer

Oleg Golubitsky

as Adjutant

Pyotr Lyubeshkin

as Terentjew

Vladimir Pitsek

as Galkin

Nikolay Smorchkov

as Tkatschenko

Gennadiy Yukhtin

as Strokow

Nikolay Pogodin

as Rudakow