Taurus

Taurus

104 mins | Drama | Feb. 24, 2001

Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.

Taurus

104 mins | Drama | Feb. 24, 2001

Taurus
Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Russian Ministry of Culture, Gosfilmfond Russia, Lenfilm
Original title Cielec
Directors Tatyana Komarova, Sergei Razhuk, Aleksandr Sokurov
Writers Yuriy Arabov

Cast

Leonid Mozgovoy

as Lenin

Mariya Kuznetsova

as Krupskaya

Sergei Razhuk

as Stalin

Natalya Nikulenko

as sister

Lev Eliseev

as doctor