The Dead Season

Dec 6, 1968

2h 18m

★ 5.1

Overview

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.

Genres

War

Thriller

Production Companies

Lenfilm

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Cast

Konstantin Ladeinikov

Donatas Banionis

Ivan Savushkin

Rolan Bykov

Valery Petrovich

Bruno Frejndlikh

Muravyov

Gennadiy Yukhtin

Professor O'Reilly

Jüri Järvet

Pavel Bocharov

Sergei Kurilov

Smith

Ants Eskola

Drayton

Einari Koppel

Professor Born/Hass

Vladimir Erenberg

Ellis

Svetlana Korkoshko

Father Mortimer

Leonhard Merzin

Katherine

Anda Zaice

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