Silvery Dust

  • 19 October 1953 (1953-10-19)
Running time
102 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

Silvery Dust (Russian: Серебристая пыль, romanized: Serebristaya pyl) is a 1953 Soviet science fiction drama film directed by Pavel Armand and Abram Room and starring Mikhail Bolduman, Sofiya Pilyavskaya and Valentina Ushakova.[1]

Synopsis

The film takes place in the 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 as Samuel Steal
  • Sofiya Pilyavskaya as Doris Steal
  • Valentina Ushakova as Jen O'Connel
  • Nikolai Timofeyev as Allan O'Connel
  • Vsevolod Larionov as Harry Steal
  • Vladimir Belokurov as Upton Bruce
  • Rostislav Plyatt as McKennedy
  • Grigori Kirillov as Dr. Kurt Schneider
  • Aleksandr Khanov as Charles Armstrong
  • Valeriy Lekarev as Gideon Smith
  • Gennadi Yudin as Dick Jones
  • Zana Zanoni as Mary Robinson
  • D. Kolmogorov as Ben Robinson
  • Aleksandr Pelevin as Joe Twist
  • Lidiya Smirnova as Flossy Beit
  • Osip Abdulov as Sheriff Smiles
  • Sergei Tsenin
  • Nadir Malishevsky
  • Aleksandr Shatov
  • Vladimir Savelev
  • Yuri Chekulayev
  • Arkadi Tsinman
  • Vladimir Sez
  • Isaak Leongarov
  • A. Arkadyeva
  • N. Nazaren
  • Robert Ross
  • Konstantin Nemolyayev as Johnny
  • Fyodor Odinokov as Sheriff's Assistant
  • Leonid Pirogov as Detained Unemployed
  • Anna Zarzhitskaya as Deadley's Wife

References

  1. ^ Liehm & Liehm p.69

Bibliography

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

External links

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