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
Vladimir Gorelov
as Menoret
Ella Nekrasova
as Mail worker
Inga Budkevich
as Society lady (uncredited)
Emiliya Milton
as Fortune teller
Lyubov Orlova
as "Lyre"
Yuri Stromov
as Colonel Chandler
Jānis Grantiņš
as Holy father
Zoya Vasilkova
as Lady at the baroness's reception
Zoya Isayeva
as Lady at the baroness's reception
Leonid Obolensky
as Industrialist
Grigori Aleksandrov
as General (uncredited)
Yakov Lents
as Von Flittendorf
Yuri Leonidov
as Arthur Opendorf
Rina Zelyonaya
as Ursula
Rimma Markova
as Mrs. Leben
Alla Budnitskaya
as Else
Mykola Hrynko
as "Uncle Vanya"
Boris Zajdenberg
as General Cringely
Georgi Tusuzov
as American man
Zana Zanoni
as Passenger (uncredited)
Viktor Markin
as Driver (uncredited)
Boris Kordunov
as Colonel Golubev
Boris Ivanov
as Baron von Lampe
Natalya Gitserot
as Louise
Nina Agapova
as Lady at the baroness's reception
Nikolai Nikitskiy
as Industrialist
Viktor Filippov
as Radioman (uncredited)
Yuri Volkov
as Jürgen
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
as Henrietta
Pavel Makhotin
as General
Stanislav Korenev
as Radioman
Pyotr Velyaminov
as "Starling"
Vyacheslav Gostinsky
as Doctor
Varvara Soshalskaya
as Baroness von Schrovenhausen
Grigoriy Shpigel
as Doctor Stoeger
Yevgeny Gurov
as Wilhelm
Galina Mikeladze
as Lady at the baroness's reception
Yuri Gusev
as Drunken lieutenant
Lyubov Polishchuk
as Girl at the baroness's reception (uncredited)
Georgiy Petrovskiy
as Industrialist (uncredited)
Arkadi Tsinman
as Industrialist (uncredited)
Viktor Shulgin
as Siegfried
