Silvery Dust
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| director = Pavel Armand
Abram Room
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| writer = Aleksandr Filimonov
August Jakobson
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| starring =
| music = Mikhail Chulaki
| cinematography = Eduard Tisse
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| studio = Mosfilm
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| released ={{Film date|1953|10|19|df=yes}}
| runtime = 102 minutes
| country = Soviet Union
| language = Russian
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Silvery Dust ({{langx|ru|Серебристая пыль|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.Liehm & Liehm p.69
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
Bibliography
- Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press, 1977.