Encounter at the Elbe
Encounter at the Elbe | |
---|---|
Directed by | Grigori Aleksandrov |
Written by | Lev Sheynin Leonid Tur Pyotr Tur |
Starring | Vladlen Davydov Konstantin Nassonov Boris Andreyev Lyubov Orlova |
Cinematography | Eduard Tisse |
Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich |
Production company | |
Release date | 1949 |
Running time | 104 min. |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Encounter at the Elbe (in Russian: Встреча на Эльбе, romanized: Vstrecha na Elbe) is a Soviet war film released in 1949 from Mosfilm, describing the conflict, spying, and collaboration between the Soviet Army advancing from the east and the U.S. Army advancing from the west. The two allied forces met each other for the first time on the River Elbe near the end of the World War II. This meeting occurred on April 25, 1945, which was usually remembered as “Elbe Day” in Western Bloc nations and as the "Encounter at the Elbe” in Eastern Bloc nations.[1]
The film was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov,[2] with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, which included “Yearning for the Homeland” (in Russian: Тоска по родине, the words by Yevgeny Dolmatovsky), that became popular at that time in the Eastern Bloc nations and among the leftists in the Western Bloc nations, including Japan.[3]
Cast[]
- Vladlen Davydov – Major (later Colonel) Kuzmin, Soviet military commander
- – Maslov, military council member
- Boris Andreyev – Sergeant Yegorkin
- Lyubov Orlova – Journalist Janet Sherwood, an American agent
- – Gen. James Hill
- Ivan Lyubeznov – Sergeant Harry Perebeynoga
- – General McDermot
- Faina Ranevskaya – Mrs. McDermot
- – Soviet officer
- Andrei Fajt – Nazi Schrank, hiding under the name of anti-fascist Krause
- Yuri Yurovsky – Professor Otto Dietrich
- Gennady Yudin – Kurt Dietrich
- Erast Garin – Captain Tommy
- Sergei Tsenin – Senator Woody
- – Ernst Shmetau
- Lidiya Sukharevskaya – Elsa Shmetau
- Nikolai Nikitich – Schultz
- Rina Zelyonaya – female German with a bicycle
- – American
- – General at the Embassy (uncredited)
- – episode (uncredited)
See also[]
- Second World War
- Eastern Front (World War II)
- Elbe Day
References[]
External links[]
- Russian-language films
- Soviet films
- 1949 films
- Films directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
- Aftermath of World War II
- Films scored by Dmitri Shostakovich
- Soviet black-and-white films
- Soviet war films
- 1940s war films
- Soviet World War II films
- Films set in 1945
- Russian World War II films
- 1940s Soviet film stubs
- World War II film stubs