Hostile Whirlwinds

Hostile Whirlwinds (Вихри враждебные)
Directed by	Mikhail Kalatozov
Written by	Nikolai Pogodin
Starring	Mikhail Kondratyev Vladimir Yemelyanov
Music by	Dmitry Kabalevsky
Cinematography	Mark Magidson
Production company	Mosfilm
Release dates	1953
Running time	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.

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.

External links

• Hostile Whirlwinds at the Internet Movie Database