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

Cast

• Mikhail Kondratyev as Lenin
• Vladimir Yemelyanov as Dzerzhinsky
• Leonid Lyubashevsky as Sverdlov
• Vladimir Solovyov as Kalinin
• Ivan Lyubeznov
• Alla Larionova
• Viktor Avdyushko
• Georgi Yumatov
• Vladimir Boriskin
• Oleg Zhakov
• Nikolai Gritsenko
• Andrei Popov
• Mikheil Gelovani as Stalin (scenes later deleted)
• Klara Luchko

Title origin

• There is a popular Polish revolutionary song Warszawianka (To The Barricades, Hostile Whirlwinds hover above us.../«Вихри враждебные реют над нами...»), Russian translation of it made by Gleb Krzhizhanovsky. Film was named after this song.

External links

• Hostile Whirlwinds at the Internet Movie Database

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