Hostile Whirlwinds

Hostile Whirlwinds
(Вихри враждебные)
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
Production
company
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

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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