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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 Mikhail Nazvanov
Cinematography	Eduard Tisse
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1949 (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.

The film was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, 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.

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)

See also※

• Second World War
• Eastern Front (World War II)
• Elbe Day

References※

External links※

• Encounter at the Elbe at IMDb

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