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…

• Lev ArnshtamDirector
• Anatolij GolowanowDirector
• Heinz ThielDirector
• Lev ArnshtamWriter
• Wolfgang EbelingWriter
• Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer

• Heinz-Dieter KnaupPaul Naumann
• Vsevolod SafonovHauptmann Leonow
• Vsevolod SanayevSergeant Koslow
• Annekathrin BürgerKatrin
• Jewgenija KosirjewaNikitina
• Marga LegalLuise Rank
• Wilhelm Koch-HoogeErich Braun
• Nikolai SergeyevSchagin
• Sergey Yakovlevsoviet officer
• Oleg GolubitskyAdjutant
• Pyotr LyubeshkinTerentjew
• Vladimir PitsekGalkin