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Five Days, Five Nights
Lev ArnshtamHeinz ThielAnatolij Golowanow

Five Days, Five Nights

  • War
  • History
RELEASE

1961-02-27

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

103 min

Description

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…