Hostile Whirlwinds

{{short description|1953 film by Mikhail Kalatozov}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Hostile Whirlwinds<br>(Вихри враждебные) | image =File:Hostile Whirlwinds.jpg | caption = | director = Mikhail Kalatozov | producer = | writer =Nikolai Pogodin | narrator = | starring =Mikhail Kondratyev<br>Vladimir Yemelyanov | music =Dmitry Kabalevsky | cinematography =Mark Magidson | editing = | studio = Mosfilm | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1953}} | runtime = 103 minutes | country = Soviet Union | language = Russian | budget = | gross = }}

'''''Hostile Whirlwinds''''' ({{langx|ru|Вихри враждебные|Vikhri vrazhdebnye}}) is a 1953 Soviet historical film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov based on a screenplay by Nikolai Pogodin.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Госфильмофонд СССР |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o6L7wAEACAAJ |title=Советские художественные фильмы: zvukovye filʹmy (1930-1957 gg.) |date=1961 |publisher=Искусство |editor-last=Macheret |editor-first=Alexander Veniaminovich |pages=491–792 |language=ru}}</ref>

==Plot summary== {{Expand section|date=November 2025}} 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 (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.

== References ==

Category:1953 films Category:1950s biographical drama films Category:Soviet biographical drama films Category:Russian biographical drama films Category:Mosfilm films Category:Russian Civil War films Category:Films set in 1918 Category:Films set in 1919 Category:Films set in 1920 Category:Films set in 1921 Category:Films directed by Mikhail Kalatozov Category:1953 Russian-language films Category:1953 drama films Category:Films scored by Dmitry Kabalevsky Category:1953 Soviet films Category:Russian-language biographical drama films <references />

==External links==

* {{IMDb title|0046517}} {{Mikhail Kalatozov}}