Hostile Whirlwinds (Вихри враждебные) |
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Directed by | Mikhail Kalatozov |
Written by | Nikolai Pogodin |
Starring | Mikhail Kondratyev Vladimir Yemelyanov |
Music by | Dmitry Kabalevsky |
Cinematography | Mark Magidson |
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Release date
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1953 |
Running time
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103 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Hostile Whirlwinds (Russian: Вихри враждебные, translit. Vikhri vrazhdebnye) is a 1953 Soviet historical film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov based on a screenplay by Nikolai Pogodin.
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.
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.