Five Days, Five Nights(1961)

movie - first aired/released 1961-02-27 - 103 min - audience 7.0

War, History, Drama

Directed by Lev Arnshtam

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.