Silvery Dust

Silvery Dust
Directed by	Pavel Armand Abram Room
Written by	Aleksandr Filimonov August Jakobson
Cinematography	Eduard Tisse
Music by	Mikhail Chulaki
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	19 October 1953 (1953-10-19)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

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.

External links

• Silvery Dust at IMDb