Hostile Whirlwinds is a 1953 film

1953 in film

The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*September 16 — The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:A...

 Soviet directed by Mikhail Kalatozov

Mikhail Kalatozov

Mikhail Kalatozov born Mikheil Kalatozishvili was a Georgian/Russian film director. Born in Tiflis , he studied economics before starting his film career as an actor and later cinematographer....

 based on a screenplay by Nikolai Pogodin

Nikolai Pogodin

Nikolai Fyodorovich Pogodin was a Soviet playwright.Born into a peasant family at Gundorovskaya Stantsiya in the Don Province, young Nikolai Stukalov "spent a wandering childhood with his mother, who travelled from one Cossack village to another taking in sewing"; he worked as a bookbinder and...

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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
  Vladimir Yemelyanov
  Vladimir Yemelyanov was a Soviet actor, who appeared in 39 films between 1953 and 1975.-Selected filmography:* Hostile Whirlwinds * Road to Life * King Lear -External links:...
  
   as Dzerzhinsky
  Dzerzhinsky
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• Leonid Lyubashevsky as Sverdlov
  Yakov Sverdlov
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• Vladimir Solovyov as Kalinin
  Kalinin
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• Ivan Lyubeznov
• Alla Larionova
• Viktor Avdyushko
  Viktor Avdyushko
  Viktor Antonovich Avdyushko was a Soviet actor and a People's Artist of the Russian SFSR.-Early life:...
  
  
• Georgi Yumatov
  Georgi Yumatov
  Georgi Yumatov was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1947 and 1994.-Selected filmography:* The Young Guard * Zhukovsky * Hostile Whirlwinds * Road to Life...
  
  
• Vladimir Boriskin
• Oleg Zhakov
• Nikolai Gritsenko
  Nikolai Gritsenko
  Nikolai Olimpievich Gritsenko was a Soviet actor of Russian-Ukrainian heritage. He appeared in 33 films between 1942 and 1978. Gritsenko also was member of the Vakhtangov Theatre company in Moscow, Russia. There he was designated Honorable actor of Russia and People's Actor of the USSR...
  
  
• Andrei Popov
• Mikheil Gelovani
  Mikheil Gelovani
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   as Stalin (scenes later deleted)
• Klara Luchko
  Klara Luchko
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Title origin

The film takes its title from a line in the popular Polish revolutionary

Revolutionary

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 song Warszawianka

Warszawianka 1905

Warszawianka is a Polish song that is believed to have been written in 1879. Wacław Święcicki wrote the song while serving a sentence in the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel for socialist activity. The song received its name during a May Day demonstration in 1905, when it became the hymn of the...

 (To The Barricades

To The Barricades

A las Barricadas was one of the most popular songs of the Spanish anarchists during the Spanish Civil War. A las Barricadas is sung to the tune of Warszawianka 1905...

, Hostile Whirlwinds hover above us.../«Вихри враждебные реют над нами...») and the Russian translation of it made by Gleb Krzhizhanovsky

Gleb Krzhizhanovsky

Gleb Maximilianovich Krzhizhanovsky was a Soviet economist and a state figure. Academician of USSR Academy of Sciences , Hero of Socialist Labour ....

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