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East German Film Festival

Thursday, 31 March, 2016

Five Days - Five Nights (Dir. Lew Amschtam, Heinz Thiel, Anatoli Golowanow, GDR/USSR, 1961, 107 min., color, English subtitles) May 8, 1945 in Dresden. The painter Paul Naumann aids Soviet soldiers tasked with recovering works of art hidden by the Nazis. He draws strength from the political convictions of the girlfriend he mistakenly believed to have died in a concentration camp. Together with German internationalists and antifascists, they locate and restore the city’s valuable treasures.

People familiar with the recent Hollywood film The Monuments Men (Dir. George Clooney, 2014) may be interested to learn about similar military initiatives to recover art undertaken by the Soviet Union. The East German-Soviet co-production Five Days - Five Nights, with an original score by Schostakovitsch, set out to tell their story already in 1961. 

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