Lenin in October (1937)

6.0/10 93 min Drama History

Overview

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.

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

Yelena Shatrova

Anna Mikhailovna

Klavdiya Korobova

Natasha, Vasily's wife (as K. Korobova)

Vladimir Pokrovskiy

Dzerzhinsky (as V. Pokrovsky)

Ivan Lagutin

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