Lenin in October
A state-commissioned biographical drama celebrating Lenin's revolutionary vision and leadership during the October 1917 insurrection, rendered in the earnest, ideologically clear style of socialist realism.
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
Aleksandr Kovalevsky
Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerenski
Nikolai Sokolov
Mikhail Vladimir Rodzyanko
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