The Dead Season (1968)

December. 20,1968

7.4

| Thriller War

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 of which he began during WW2 experimenting on war prisoners. 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.

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Cast

Donatas Banionis as Konstantin Ladeinikov

[1991] Depression [1991] Bloodsuckers [1990] Human Target [1986] Cry of a Dolphin [1986] Snake Catcher [1986] He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Rolan Bykov as Ivan Savushkin

[1993] The Gray Wolves [1992] Arbiter [1987] The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin [1986] Trial on the Road [1985] Start All Over Again [1981] Kuda Ischez Fomenko?

Bruno Frejndlikh as Valery Petrovich

[1990] Stalingrad [1978] A Declaration of Love [1977] Timur and His Team [1972] Affairs of the Past [1971] The Flight [1968] The Dead Season

Reviews

VeteranLight

1968/12/20

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Fatma Suarez

1968/12/21

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Bob

1968/12/22

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Kimball

1968/12/23

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.