The Dead Season (1968)

5.3/10 138 min Thriller Drama Crime

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.

Cast

Donatas Banionis

Konstantin Ladeinikov

Rolan Bykov

Ivan Savushkin

Bruno Frejndlikh

Valery Petrovich

Gennadiy Yukhtin

Muravyov

Jüri Järvet

Professor O'Reilly

Sergei Kurilov

Pavel Bocharov

Ants Eskola

Smith

Einari Koppel

Drayton

Vladimir Erenberg

Professor Born/Hass

Svetlana Korkoshko

Ellis

Leonhard Merzin

Father Mortimer

Anda Zaice

Katherine

Nikolay Zaseev-Rudenko

Mikhail Ivanov

Stepan Krylov

Heino Mandri

Vadim Medvedev

Vytautas Tomkus

Ants Lauter

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