Encounter at the Elbe

Encounter at the Elbe (in Russian: Встреча на Эльбе, romanized: Vstrecha na Elbe) is a Soviet movie 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 close of the Second World War. 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.[1]

Encounter at the Elbe
Directed by	Grigori Aleksandrov Aleksey Utkin
Written by	Lev Sheynin Leonid Tur Pyotr Tur
Starring	Vladlen Davydov Konstantin Nassonov Boris Andreyev Lyubov Orlova Faina Ranevskaya
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Cinematography	Eduard Tisse
Edited by	Yeva Ladyzhenskaya
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1949
Running time	104 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The movie was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Aleksey Utkin,[2] with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, which included “Yearning for the Homeland” (in Russian: Тоска по родине, the words by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky), that became popular at that time in the Eastern Bloc nations and among the leftists in the Western Bloc nations including Japan.[3]