Hostile Whirlwinds (Russian: Вихри враждебные, romanized: Vikhri vrazhdebnye) is a 1953 Soviet historical film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov based on a screenplay by Nikolai Pogodin.

Film portrays the first years of Soviet government, biography of Felix Dzerzhinsky in 1918–1921.

Some themes that occur during this film are resilience, the need for violence in difficult circumstances, and how physical relationships affect actual issues.

This movie is symbolically sensual and takes great interpretation to understand the true meaning of this relationship.

The film takes its title from a line in the popular Polish revolutionary song Whirlwinds of Danger (Warszawianka, To The Barricades, Hostile Whirlwinds hover above us.../«Вихри враждебные реют над нами...») and the Russian translation of it made by Gleb Krzhizhanovsky.