Summary
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.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 62GoodWatch 66
IMDb6.2
Running time
1 h 43 min
A typical length for war movies, −15 min on the typical 118
typical 118103Half of all war movies run 103–135 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
1961
February 27, 1961
65 years ago
Genres
WarHistoryDramaLanguage
Russian
Original language
Also spoken
GermanMade in
XG
Russia
Rated
No age rating yet.
Yes: its content advisories are violence, and the viewing guide lists it for kids.
What's in it
- ViolenceModerate
- Gore, disturbing imagesLittle or none
- Frightening scenesLittle or none
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesModerate
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
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and 11 more16 people
- HKHeinz-Dieter KnaupPaul Naumann
- Vsevolod SafonovHauptmann Leonow
- Vsevolod SanayevSergeant Koslow
- Annekathrin BürgerKatrin
- Evgeniya KozyrevaNikitina
- Marga LegalLuise Rank
- Wilhelm Koch-HoogeErich Braun
- Nikolai SergeyevSchagin
- Sergey Yakovlevsoviet officer
Oleg GolubitskyAdjutant
Pyotr LyubeshkinTerentjew
Vladimir PitsekGalkin
Nikolay SmorchkovTkatschenko
Gennadiy YukhtinStrokow
Nikolay PogodinRudakow- ADAndrey DemyanovAlyosha
Directing · 3
- Lev Arnshtam Director, Writer
- Heinz Thiel First Assistant Director
- Anatoliy Golovanov First Assistant Director
Writing · 1
- Wolfgang Ebeling Writer
Camera · 3
- Aleksandr Shelenkov Director of Photography
- Yu-Lan Chen Director of Photography
- Sergei Armand Assistant Camera
Editing · 1
- Tatyana Likhachyova Editor
Sound · 3
- Dmitri Shostakovich Original Music Composer
- Bernd Gerwien Sound Director
- Boris Volsky Sound Director
Art · 2
- Herbert Nitzschke Production Design
- Aleksei Parkhomenko Production Design
Costume & Make-Up · 3
- Nadezhda Buzina Costume Design
- Walter Schulze-Mittendorff Costume Design
- Vladimir Yakovlev Makeup & Hair
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