---
title: 'Encounter at the Elbe (1949)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Grigori Aleksandrov'
released: '1949-03-16'
runtime_minutes: 104
genres:
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/encounter-at-the-elbe-1949'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042029/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Encounter at the Elbe (1949)

1949 · 104 min · War · Soviet Union

Original title: Встреча на Эльбе

## Synopsis

Encounter at the 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Grigori Aleksandrov](https://cinepixo.com/people/grigori-aleksandrov)
- **Screenplay:** [Lev Romanovich Sheïnin](https://cinepixo.com/people/lev-romanovich-sheinin), [Leonid Tur](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-tur), [Pyotr Tur](https://cinepixo.com/people/pyotr-tur)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Dmitri Shostakovich](https://cinepixo.com/people/dmitri-shostakovich)
- **Director of Photography:** [Eduard Tisse](https://cinepixo.com/people/eduard-tisse)

## Cast

- [Erast Garin](https://cinepixo.com/people/erast-garin)
- [Vladlen Davydov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladlen-davydov)
- [Lyubov Orlova](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyubov-orlova)
- [Faina Ranevskaya](https://cinepixo.com/people/faina-ranevskaya)
- [Boris Andreyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/boris-andreyev)
- [Andrei Fajt](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrei-fajt)
- [Konstantin Nassonov](https://cinepixo.com/people/konstantin-nassonov)

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