

Lenin in October
5.8(16 votes)
1937
1h 33m
Drama
History
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.
Production
Mosfilm
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