On the Way to Lenin

On the Way to Lenin

107 mins | Drama, History | April 15, 1970

A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.

On the Way to Lenin

107 mins | Drama, History | April 15, 1970

On the Way to Lenin
A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.
Producers Mosfilm, DEFA
Original title Unterwegs zu Lenin
Directors Günter Reisch
Writers Helmut Baierl, Alfred Kurella, Yevgeni Gabrilovich

Cast

Gottfried Richter

as Viktor Kleist

Mikhail Ulyanov

as Lenin

Helga Göring

as Frau Kleist

Winfried Glatzeder

as Rolf Rosenow

Inge Keller

as Frau von Roettger

Dieter Mann

as Erich

Lev Kruglyy

as George

Zhanna Bolotova

as Lena

Lev Durov

as Kuzma Sukharin

Gleb Strizhenov

as Der Kommissar

Gennadiy Yukhtin

as Pilot

Valentina Vladimirova

as Hoteldiensthabende

Mikhail Metyolkin

as Schwarkin

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

as Sekretär des Kreiskomitees

Erika Pelikowsky

as Georges Mutter

Norbert Christian

as Untersuchungsrichter

Jörg Gillner

as Harry Motsch

Anna Prucnal

as Telefonistin

Hans-Joachim Hanisch

as Leutnant Vogel

Horst Hiemer

as Genosse Wolf

Hans Klering

as Alter Mann auf der Treppe

Hans-Peter Reinecke

as Kleiner Soldat