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Directed by
  
Mikhail Kalatozov

Music by
  
Dmitry Kabalevsky

Production company
  
Mosfilm

Director
  
Mikhail Kalatozov

Music director
  
Dmitry Kabalevsky

Cast
  
Vladimir Yemelyanov

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Written by
  
Nikolai Pogodin

Cinematography
  
Mark Magidson

Initial release
  
1953

Screenplay
  
Nikolai Pogodin

Production company
  
Mosfilm

Starring
  
Mikhail Kondratyev Vladimir Yemelyanov

Similar
  
Valery Chkalov, Salt for Svanetia, The First Echelon, The Unforgettable Year 1919, True Friends

Hostile Whirlwinds (Russian: Вихри враждебные, Vikhri vrazhdebnye) is a 1953 Soviet historical film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov based on a screenplay by Nikolai Pogodin.

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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 Whirlwinds of Danger (Warszawianka, To The Barricades, Hostile Whirlwinds hover above us.../«Вихри враждебные реют над нами...») and the Russian translation of it made by Gleb Krzhizhanovsky.

    References

    Hostile Whirlwinds Wikipedia