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

Hostile Whirlwinds
(Вихри враждебные)
Directed byMikhail Kalatozov
Written byNikolai Pogodin
StarringMikhail Kondratyev
Vladimir Yemelyanov
CinematographyMark Magidson
Music byDmitry Kabalevsky
Production
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Release date
  • 1953 (1953)
Running time
103 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Plot summary

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Film portrays 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.

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.

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Title origin

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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.

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