Lenin in October

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Lenin in October

1937

1h 33m

6.0(20 votes)

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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.

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Boris Shchukin

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Nikolai Okhlopkov

Vasily

Vasili Vanin

Factory Foreman Matveyev

Nikolai Arsky

Blinov, worker (as N. Arsky)

Nikolai Chaplygin

Kirilin

Vladimir Vladislavskiy

Karnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky)

Semyon Goldshtab

Josef Stalin

Nikolai Svobodin

Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary

Vadim Ganshin

Zhukov, the Menshevik

Yelena Shatrova

Anna Mikhailovna

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Directed by: Mikhail Romm
Written by: Aleksei Kapler

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