# Silvery Dust

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{{Infobox film
| name =Silvery Dust
| image = Silver_Powder.jpg
| caption =
| director = [Pavel Armand](/source/Pavel_Armand) <br> [Abram Room](/source/Abram_Room)
| producer =   
| writer = [Aleksandr Filimonov](/source/Aleksandr_Filimonov) <br> [August Jakobson](/source/August_Jakobson)
| narrator =
| starring = 
| music = [Mikhail Chulaki](/source/Mikhail_Chulaki)
| cinematography = [Eduard Tisse](/source/Eduard_Tisse)
| editing = 
| studio = [Mosfilm](/source/Mosfilm)
| distributor =   
| released ={{Film date|1953|10|19|df=yes}}
| runtime = 102 minutes
| country =  Soviet Union
| language = Russian
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Silvery Dust''''' ({{langx|ru|Серебристая пыль|Serebristaya pyl}}) is a 1953 Soviet [science fiction](/source/science_fiction_film) [drama film](/source/drama_film) directed by [Pavel Armand](/source/Pavel_Armand) and [Abram Room](/source/Abram_Room) and starring [Mikhail Bolduman](/source/Mikhail_Bolduman), [Sofiya Pilyavskaya](/source/Sofiya_Pilyavskaya) and [Valentina Ushakova](/source/Valentina_Ushakova).<ref>Liehm & Liehm p.69</ref>

==Synopsis==

The film takes place in the [United States](/source/United_States). Samuel Steal is a scientist with only one life purpose - to become rich. The professor invents a powerful new weapon of mass destruction; a deadly radioactive silver-gray powder. To possess Steal's invention, a struggle between two military-industrial behemoth trusts involving gangsters begins.

==Cast==
* [Mikhail Bolduman](/source/Mikhail_Bolduman) as Samuel Steal  
* [Sofiya Pilyavskaya](/source/Sofiya_Pilyavskaya) as Doris Steal  
* [Valentina Ushakova](/source/Valentina_Ushakova) as Jen O'Connel  
* [Nikolai Timofeyev](/source/Nikolai_Timofeyev) as Allan O'Connel  
* [Vsevolod Larionov](/source/Vsevolod_Larionov) as Harry Steal  
* [Vladimir Belokurov](/source/Vladimir_Belokurov) as Upton Bruce  
* [Rostislav Plyatt](/source/Rostislav_Plyatt) as McKennedy  
* [Grigori Kirillov](/source/Grigori_Kirillov) as Dr. Kurt Schneider  
* [Aleksandr Khanov](/source/Aleksandr_Khanov) as Charles Armstrong 
* [Valeriy Lekarev](/source/Valeriy_Lekarev) as Gideon Smith  
* [Gennadi Yudin](/source/Gennadi_Yudin) as Dick Jones  
* [Zana Zanoni](/source/Zana_Zanoni) as Mary Robinson  
* D. Kolmogorov as Ben Robinson  
* [Aleksandr Pelevin](/source/Aleksandr_Pelevin) as Joe Twist  
* [Lidiya Smirnova](/source/Lidiya_Smirnova) as Flossy Beit 
* [Osip Abdulov](/source/Osip_Abdulov) as Sheriff Smiles  
* [Sergei Tsenin](/source/Sergei_Tsenin) 
* [Nadir Malishevsky](/source/Nadir_Malishevsky) 
* [Aleksandr Shatov](/source/Aleksandr_Shatov) 
* [Vladimir Savelev](/source/Vladimir_Savelev) 
* [Yuri Chekulayev](/source/Yuri_Chekulayev) 
* [Arkadi Tsinman](/source/Arkadi_Tsinman) 
* [Vladimir Sez](/source/Vladimir_Sez) 
* [Isaak Leongarov](/source/Isaak_Leongarov) 
* A. Arkadyeva  
* N. Nazaren   
* [Robert Ross](/source/Robert_Ross_(actor))
* [Konstantin Nemolyayev](/source/Konstantin_Nemolyayev) as Johnny  
* [Fyodor Odinokov](/source/Fyodor_Odinokov) as Sheriff's Assistant 
* [Leonid Pirogov](/source/Leonid_Pirogov) as Detained Unemployed 
* [Anna Zarzhitskaya](/source/Anna_Zarzhitskaya) as Deadley's Wife

== References ==
<references/>

== Bibliography ==
* Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. ''The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945''. University of California Press, 1977.

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0169216}}

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Category:1953 films
Category:1953 Russian-language films
Category:Russian-language science fiction drama films
Category:Films directed by Abram Room
Category:1950s science fiction drama films
Category:Soviet science fiction drama films
Category:Mosfilm films
Category:Mad scientist films
Category:1953 drama films
Category:Soviet black-and-white films
Category:1953 Soviet films
Category:1953 science fiction films

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