Hostile Whirlwinds

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

Hostile Whirlwinds (Вихри враждебные)
Directed by	Mikhail Kalatozov
Written by	Nikolai Pogodin
Starring	Mikhail Kondratyev Vladimir Yemelyanov
Cinematography	Mark Magidson
Music by	Dmitry Kabalevsky
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1953 (1953)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Plot summary

The film portrays the first years of Soviet government, biography of Felix Dzerzhinsky in 1918–1921.

In 1956, three years after Joseph Stalin's death, the film was re-released without scenes with Stalin.

This film explores a complex time between a relationship of two severely stern Soviet lovers who explore a complicated relationship. Some themes that occur during this film are resilience, the need for violence in difficult circumstances, and how physical relationships affect actual issues. This movie is symbolically sensual and takes great interpretation to understand the true meaning of this relationship. This substory occurs in the midst of several tragic events.

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.

External links

• Hostile Whirlwinds at IMDb