Silvery Dust () is a 1953 Soviet science fiction drama film directed by Pavel Armand and Abram Room and starring Mikhail Bolduman, Sofiya Pilyavskaya and Valentina Ushakova.

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.

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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.

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External links

1953 films

1950s Russian-language films

Films directed by Abram Room

1950s science fiction drama films

Soviet science fiction drama films

Russian science fiction drama films

Mosfilm films

Mad scientist films

1953 drama films

Soviet black-and-white films

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