Lenin in October poster

Lenin in October

1937 6 1h 33m

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.

Part of Lenin (Romm) Collection

Cast

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