Lenin in October (1937)

11/07/1937 (SU) • 1h 33m

Drama, History

Overview

Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917.

Top Billed Cast

Boris Shchukin

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Vasili Vanin

Factory Foreman Matveyev

Nikolai Arsky

Blinov, worker (as N. Arsky)

Vladimir Vladislavskiy

Karnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky)

Semyon Goldshtab

Josef Stalin

Nikolai Svobodin

Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary

Vadim Ganshin

Zhukov, the Menshevik


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Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

biography

russian revolution (1917)

communism

socialist realism

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