The Dead Season (1968)
Original title: Мертвый сезон
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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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Donatas BanionisKonstantin Ladeinikov
Rolan BykovIvan Savushkin
Bruno FrejndlikhValery Petrovich
Gennadiy YukhtinMuravyov
Jüri JärvetProfessor O'Reilly
Sergei KurilovPavel Bocharov
Ants EskolaSmith
Einari KoppelDrayton
Vladimir ErenbergProfessor Born/Hass
Svetlana KorkoshkoEllis
Leonhard MerzinFather Mortimer
Anda ZaiceKatherineMovie DNA
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What is The Dead Season about?
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.
How long is The Dead Season?
The Dead Season has a runtime of 138 minutes.