Five Days, Five Nights

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.

Cast

Heinz-Dieter Knaup

as Paul Naumann

Vsevolod Safonov

as Hauptmann Leonow

Vsevolod Sanayev

as Sergeant Koslow

Annekathrin Bürger

as Katrin

Evgeniya Kozyreva

as Nikitina

Evgeniya Kozyreva

Marga Legal

as Luise Rank

Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

as Erich Braun

Nikolai Sergeyev

as Schagin

Sergey Yakovlev

as soviet officer

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