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