The Dead Season
1968 · 138 min · Thriller, Drama, Crime
Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal, Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development that he began during World War II, experimenting on POWs. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who, during the war, escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together, they must identify and stop him before he finishes and unleashes his weapon of mass destruction.
- Director
- Savva Kulish
- Writers
- Aleksandr Shlepyanov, Vladimir Vaynshtok
- Released
- December 6, 1968
- Language
- Russian
Cast
Donatas Banionis
Konstantin Ladeinikov
Rolan Bykov
Ivan Savushkin
Bruno Frejndlikh
Valery Petrovich
Gennadiy Yukhtin
Muravyov
Jüri Järvet
Professor O'Reilly
Sergei Kurilov
Pavel Bocharov
Ants Eskola
Smith
Einari Koppel
Drayton
Vladimir Erenberg
Professor Born/Hass
Svetlana Korkoshko
Ellis
Leonhard Merzin
Father Mortimer
Anda Zaice
Katherine
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