While Dresden is in ruins in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, over two thousand paintings by artists including Rembrandt, Raphael, Rubens, Giorgione, and Vermeer have disappeared from the city’s Old Masters Picture Gallery. Red Army captain Leonov and his soldiers are ordered to recover the lost paintings.

• DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
• Mosfilm
• Heinz-Dieter Knaup
• Vsevolod Safonov
• Vsevolod Sanayev
• Annekathrin Bürger
• Evgeniya Kozyreva
• Evgeniya Kozyreva
• Marga Legal
• Wilhelm Koch-Hooge