Lenin in October

Lenin in October

93 mins | Drama, History | Nov. 7, 1937

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.

Lenin in October

93 mins | Drama, History | Nov. 7, 1937

Lenin in October
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.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Ленин в Октябре
Directors Isidor Simkov, Mikhail Romm, Dmitriy Vasilev
Writers Aleksei Kapler

Cast

Boris Shchukin

as Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Nikolai Okhlopkov

as Vasily

Vasili Vanin

as Factory Foreman Matveyev

Nikolai Arsky

as Blinov, worker (as N. Arsky)

Nikolai Chaplygin

as Kirilin

Vladimir Vladislavskiy

as Karnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky)

Semyon Goldshtab

as Josef Stalin

Nikolai Svobodin

as Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary

Vadim Ganshin

as Zhukov, the Menshevik

Yelena Shatrova

as Anna Mikhailovna

Aleksandr Kovalevsky

as Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerenski

Nikolai Sokolov

as Mikhail Vladimir Rodzyanko

Klavdiya Korobova

as Natasha, Vasily's wife (as K. Korobova)

Vladimir Pokrovskiy

as Dzerzhinsky (as V. Pokrovsky)