Starling and Lyre
Скворец и Лира
Release: 1974-06-16
·Runtime: 137m
·★ 5.5
Romance
Thriller
War
Drama
Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Filmové studio Barrandov
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Cast
Viktor Markin
as Driver (uncredited)
Arkadi Tsinman
as Industrialist (uncredited)
Varvara Soshalskaya
as Baroness von Schrovenhausen
Viktor Shulgin
as Siegfried
Georgi Tusuzov
as American man
Grigoriy Shpigel
as Doctor Stoeger
Lyubov Polishchuk
as Girl at the baroness's reception (uncredited)
Stanislav Korenev
as Radioman
Yuri Leonidov
as Arthur Opendorf
Vyacheslav Gostinsky
as Doctor
Inga Budkevich
as Society lady (uncredited)
Boris Ivanov
as Baron von Lampe
Boris Zajdenberg
as General Cringely
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
as Henrietta
Vladimir Gorelov
as Menoret
Natalya Gitserot
as Louise
Boris Kordunov
as Colonel Golubev
Rina Zelyonaya
as Ursula
Yuri Stromov
as Colonel Chandler
Zana Zanoni
as Passenger (uncredited)
Georgiy Petrovskiy
as Industrialist (uncredited)
Viktor Filippov
as Radioman (uncredited)
Emiliya Milton
as Fortune teller
Lyubov Orlova
as "Lyre"
Jānis Grantiņš
as Holy father
Leonid Obolensky
as Industrialist
Rimma Markova
as Mrs. Leben
Pavel Makhotin
as General
Alla Budnitskaya
as Else
Yakov Lents
as Von Flittendorf
Yevgeny Gurov
as Wilhelm
Zoya Isayeva
as Lady at the baroness's reception
Yuri Gusev
as Drunken lieutenant
Pyotr Velyaminov
as "Starling"
Mykola Hrynko
as "Uncle Vanya"
Yuri Volkov
as Jürgen
Zoya Vasilkova
as Lady at the baroness's reception
Galina Mikeladze
as Lady at the baroness's reception
Nikolai Nikitskiy
as Industrialist
Ella Nekrasova
as Mail worker
Grigori Aleksandrov
as General (uncredited)
Nina Agapova
as Lady at the baroness's reception
