Lenin in October

5.8
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Run time: 93 min
  • Premiere: 1937. November 7.

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.

Discover

Boris Shchukin

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Vasili Vanin

Factory Foreman Matveyev

Nikolai Arsky

Blinov, worker (as N. Arsky)

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

Klavdiya Korobova

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

Vladimir Pokrovskiy

Dzerzhinsky (as V. Pokrovsky)

Art

Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke

Art Direction

Nikolai Solovyov

Art Direction

Camera

Boris Volchek

Director of Photography

Directing

Mikhail Romm

Director

Isidor Simkov

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Igor Vakar

Production Director

Sound

Anatoliy Aleksandrov

Original Music Composer

Writing

Art

Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke

Art Direction

Nikolai Solovyov

Art Direction

Camera

Boris Volchek

Director of Photography

Directing

Mikhail Romm

Director

Isidor Simkov

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Igor Vakar

Production Director

Sound

Anatoliy Aleksandrov

Original Music Composer

Writing