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

SpuffyWeb

1968/12/20

Sadly Over-hyped

Grimerlana

1968/12/21

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Ortiz

1968/12/22

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Raymond Sierra

1968/12/23

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.