Tsar to Lenin

Tsar to Lenin (1937)

The Definitive Film Record of the 1917 Russian Revolution

A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage.

Date of release
1937-03-06
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 3m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Herman Axelbank

Casting

Interesting facts

Tsar to Lenin is a documentary and cinematic record of the Russian Revolution, produced by Herman Axelbank. It premiered on March 6, 1937, at the Filmarte Theatre on Fifty-Eighth Street in New York City. Pioneer American radical Max Eastman (1883-1969) narrates the film. Because of its pro-Trotskyist position, the film was suppressed by the Stalinists of the American Communist Party and was only widely available in a shortened format in the Library of Congress until its re-release in 2012 by the Socialist Equality Party (US), who state that its predecessor, the Workers League, purchased the film from Axelbank in 1978 and organized showings of the film in the intervening period.

Production

The footage was collected by Herman Axelbank, starting in 1920. The

scenes of the film were gathered from more than 100 different cameras

over the course of the next thirteen years. Those behind the camera

include the Tsar's royal photographer, the Tsar himself, Soviet

photographers, military staff photographers of Germany, Great Britain,

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