The Dead Season

Мертвый сезон

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.

Director

Savva Kulish

Screenplay

Aleksandr Shlepyanov

Screenplay

Vladimir Vaynshtok

Music

Andrey Volkonsky

Status

Released

Release date

06/12/1968

Original language

Russian