Encounter at the Elbe

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]

Encounter at the Elbe
Directed byGrigori Aleksandrov
Written byLev Sheynin
Leonid Tur
Pyotr Tur
StarringVladlen Davydov
Konstantin Nassonov
Boris Andreyev
Lyubov Orlova
Mikhail Nazvanov
CinematographyEduard Tisse
Music byDmitri Shostakovich
Production
company
Release date
1949
Running time
104 min.
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

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
  • Konstantin Nassonov – Maslov, military council member
  • Boris Andreyev – Sergeant Yegorkin
  • Lyubov Orlova – Journalist Janet Sherwood, an American agent
  • Mikhail Nazvanov – Gen. James Hill
  • Ivan Lyubeznov – Sergeant Harry Perebeynoga
  • Vladimir Vladislavsky – General McDermot
  • Faina Ranevskaya – Mrs. McDermot
  • Andrei Petrov – 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
  • Viktor Kulakov – Ernst Shmetau
  • Lidiya Sukharevskaya – Elsa Shmetau
  • Nikolai Nikitich – Schultz
  • Rina Zelyonaya – female German with a bicycle
  • Harijs Avens – American
  • Yevgeny Kaluzhsky – General at the Embassy (uncredited)
  • Mikhail Vorobyov – episode (uncredited)

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