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'Encounter at the Elbe' (in ) 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090210171325/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967556,00.html The 40th Anniversary of "Elbe Day" Remembered (Time on line)]

The film was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov,[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042029/ Encounter at the Elbe (IMDB)] with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, which included Yearning for the Homeland (in , 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.[http://bunbun.boo.jp/okera/aaoo/erube_gawa.htm Elbe-gawa (Yearning for the Homeland] (in Japanese)

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




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