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Lenin in October

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

Boris Shchukin

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Nikolai Okhlopkov

Nikolai Okhlopkov

Vasily

Vasili Vanin

Vasili Vanin

Factory Foreman Matveyev

Nikolai Arsky

Nikolai Arsky

Blinov, worker (as N. Arsky)

Nikolai Chaplygin

Nikolai Chaplygin

Kirilin

Vladimir Vladislavskiy

Vladimir Vladislavskiy

Karnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky)

Semyon Goldshtab

Semyon Goldshtab

Josef Stalin

Nikolai Svobodin

Nikolai Svobodin

Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary

Vadim Ganshin

Zhukov, the Menshevik

Yelena Shatrova

Yelena Shatrova

Anna Mikhailovna

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Directed by: Mikhail Romm
Written by: Aleksei Kapler

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