Silvery Dust
Directed byPavel Armand
Abram Room
Written byAleksandr Filimonov
August Jakobson
CinematographyEduard Tisse
Music byMikhail Chulaki
Production
company
Release date
19 October 1953
Running time
102 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

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.


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