''Dead Season'' (russian: Мёртвый сезон, translit. Myortvyy sezon) is a 1968

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spy film directed by Savva Kulish based on a screenplay by Aleksandr Shlepyanov and

Vladimir Vajnshtok Vladimir Petrovich Vajnshtok (russian: Владимир Петрович Вайншток; 2 March 1908 – 18 October 1978) was a Soviet film director and, under the name Vladimir Vladimirov, screenwriter. Selected filmography Director * ...

and featuring

Donatas Banionis Donatas Banionis (28 April 1924 – 4 September 2014) was a Soviet and Lithuanian stage and film actor and theatre director. He has more than 80 credited roles in cinema and is best known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's '' So ...

and

Rolan Bykov Rolan Antonovich Bykov (russian: Ролан Антонович Быков; October 12, 1929 – October 6, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, director, screenwriter and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1990). Early life R ...

Plot

A connection between Dr. Hass and the West German intelligence was killed at an airport in one of the European countries. Encryption was discovered in the pocket of the murdered person for the purchase of raw material for mass production of RH gas. The possibilities of gas are such that in small doses it stimulates the intellectual potential of a person, in large ones it turns them into a joyous idiot and a laborer-robot. The case of Haas is handled by the Soviet intelligence colonel Konstantin Ladeynikov. The main difficulty is that Ladeynikov has fallen into the sight of the intelligence services, but the intelligence officer asks for permission from his leadership to stay in the country and continue work. However, Ladeynikov has no portrait of Hass so he needs a person who can identify him. The KGB leadership appeals to the actor of the children's theater, the father of two children, Ivan Savushkin, with a request to draw a portrait of Hass. In 1944, Savushkin fled from a

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, where Hass conducted his fatal experiments, turning people into meaningless animals. Over time, Savushkin understands how much he depends on him in the operation with Haas and agrees to go to help Ladeynikov. In addition, he knows German well.

Cast

as Ladeynikov / Lonsfield (voiced by

Alexander Demyanenko Aleksandr Sergeyevich Demyanenko (russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Демья́ненко; May 30, 1937 – August 22, 1999) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was given the honorary distinction of People's Artist of the RSFSR. H ...

) *

as Savushkin *

Gennadi Yukhtin Gennadi (birth name Geniy) Gavrilovich Yukhtin (russian: Геннадий (Гений) Гаврилович Юхтин; 30 March 1932 – 18 February 2022) was a Russian film and stage actor. Life and career At the age of fourteen, Yukhtin wa ...

as Muravyov *

Bruno Freindlich Bruno Arturovich Freindlich (russian: Бруно Артурович Фрейндлих; 10 October 1909 – 9 July 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1974). His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a notable actres ...

as Valery Petrovich * Svetlana Korkoshko as Ellis *

Jüri Järvet Jüri Järvet (18 June 1919 – 5 July 1995) was an Estonian actor. His name sometimes appears as Yuri Yevgenyevich Yarvet, an incorrect back-transliteration from the Russian transliteration Юри Евгеньевич Ярвет. His birthna ...

as Professor O'Reilly * Laimonas Noreika as Nicholls * Stepan Krylov as former prisoner of concentration camp * Ants Eskola as Smith * Leonhard Merzin as Father Mortimer * Einari Koppel as Drayton * Mauri Raus as Greban * Vladimir Erenberg as Professor Born / Hass *

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as Catrine

Trivia

* Film features a scene of exchange of the spies on the Glienicke Bridge. *

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once stated that Banionis' part in the film was the reason why he joined the KGB.

References

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* 1968 films Lenfilm films Cold War spy films 1960s adventure drama films 1960s spy drama films Films set in Germany Soviet spy drama films Soviet adventure drama films Soviet black-and-white films Television episodes about Nazis Biological weapons in popular culture {{USSR-film-stub Films about Nazi fugitives Films about the KGB Films set in West Germany