Hostile Whirlwinds
Hostile Whirlwinds is a 1953 Soviet historical film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov based on a screenplay by Nikolai Pogodin.
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 featuring 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
- Klara Luchko