Hostile Whirlwinds
| Hostile Whirlwinds (Вихри враждебные) | |
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| Directed by | Mikhail Kalatozov |
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Release dates | 1953 |
Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Hostile Whirlwinds (Russian: Вихри враждебные, translit. Vikhri vrazhdebnye) is a 1953 film from the Soviet Union directed by Mikhail Kalatozov based on a screenplay by Nikolai Pogodin.
Plot summary
Film exercises the first years of Soviet government, biography of Felix Dzerzhinsky in 1918-1921.
In 1956 the film was re-released without scenes with Joseph Stalin.
Cast
- Mikhail Kondratyev as Vladimir Lenin
- Vladimir Yemelyanov as Felix Dzerzhinsky
- Leonid Lyubashevsky as Yakov Sverdlov
- Vladimir Solovyov as Mikhail Kalinin
- Ivan Lyubeznov
- Alla Larionova
- Viktor Avdyushko
- Georgi Yumatov
- Vladimir Boriskin
- Oleg Zhakov
- Nikolai Gritsenko
- Andrei Popov
- Mikheil Gelovani as Joseph Stalin (scenes later deleted)
- Klara Luchko
Title origin
The film takes its title from a line in the popular Polish revolutionary song Warszawianka (To The Barricades, Hostile Whirlwinds hover above us.../«Вихри враждебные реют над нами...») and the Russian translation of it made by Gleb Krzhizhanovsky.
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