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Hostile Whirlwinds

Hostile Whirlwinds

1956•1h 37m•5.6/10
DramaHistory

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5.6/10(7)

Observing the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky from 1918-1925; in July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, German ambassador Mirbach is killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky alone goes to the headquarters of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Anarchists, he manages to persuade ordinary soldiers and sailors, participants in the rebellion, who are now cracking down on their leaders.

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Production

Mosfilm

Language

RU

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Mikhail Kondratyev

Mikhail Kondratyev

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Vladimir Yemelyanov

Vladimir Yemelyanov

Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

Leonid Lyubashevsky

Leonid Lyubashevsky

Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov

Vladimir Solovyov

Vladimir Solovyov

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin

Ivan Lyubeznov

Ivan Lyubeznov

Lemekh

Alla Larionova

Alla Larionova

Vera

Viktor Avdyushko

Viktor Avdyushko

Kovalyov

Georgiy Yumatov

Georgiy Yumatov

Balandin

Vladimir Boriskin

Vladimir Boriskin

Lunatik

Igor Bezyaev

Igor Bezyaev

Vinogradov

Sergei Lukyanov

Sergei Lukyanov

Nikanor

Sergei Romodanov

Sergei Romodanov

Medvedev

Pyotr Mukhin

Pyotr Mukhin

mine manager

Andrei Popov

Andrei Popov

Lockhart

Nikolai Gritsenko

Nikolai Gritsenko

Schröder

Aleksandr Khokhlov

Aleksandr Khokhlov

Francis

Grigori Kirillov

Grigori Kirillov

Pashkov

Oleg Zhakov

Oleg Zhakov

Pyatakov

Antoni Khodursky

Antoni Khodursky

Kolomatyano

Aleksandr Degtyar

Aleksandr Degtyar

Klimov

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