4 Days in May

Sep 29, 2011

1h 34m

★ 6.1

Overview

Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly baroness gives shelter to a group of orphan girls and a boy who is determined to continue the fight.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

X Filme Creative Pool

ZAO Studio FAF

Aurora Production

ARTE

NDR

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Cast

Boy

Pavel Wenzel

Russian Captain

Aleksey Guskov

Russian Soldier #1

Ivan Shvedoff

Russian Soldier #2

Andrey Merzlikin

Russian Soldier #3

Sergey Legostaev

Russian Soldier #4

Maksim Kowalewski

Russian Soldier #5

Yevgeni Sitokhin

Russian Soldier #6

Vladimir Svirskiy

Russian Soldier #7

Grigoriy Dobrygin

Girl

Angelina Häntsch

Baroness

Gertrud Roll

Cook

Petra Kelling

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