On the Way to Lenin (1970)

5.7/10 107 min Drama History

Overview

A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.

Cast

Mikhail Ulyanov

Lenin

Helga Göring

Mrs. Kleist

Winfried Glatzeder

Rolf Rosenow

Inge Keller

Mrs. von Roettger

Dieter Mann

Erich

Carmen-Maja Antoni

Kurt Müller-Reitzner

Major

Lev Kruglyy

George

Zhanna Bolotova

Lena

Lev Durov

Kuzma Sukharin

Lyusyena Ovchinnikova

Rimma

Gleb Strizhenov

The Commissioner

Gennadiy Yukhtin

Pilot

Valentina Vladimirova

Hotel duty

Mikhail Metyolkin

Schwarkin

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

Secretary of the District Committee

Heidemarie Wenzel

Lore

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