Lenin in 1918 (1939)
Ленин в 1918 году
Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in Russia.
- Date of release
- 1939-04-06
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (16)
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Mikhail Romm
- Collection
- Lenin (Romm) Collection
Casting
- Boris Shchukin — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Nikolai Cherkasov — Maksim Gorky
- Vasiliy Markov — Feliks Edmundovich Dzerjinsky
- Leonid Lyubashevsky — Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov
- Nikolai Bogolyubov — Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov
- Zinaida Dobina — Nadyezda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
- Nikolai Okhlopkov — Vasily
- Klavdiya Korobova — Vasili's Wife
- Aleksandr Shatov — Konstantinov, conspirator chieftain
- Vasili Vanin — Kremlin Commandant Mateyev
- Vladimir Solovyov — Sintsov, a spy
- Nikolai Svobodin — Rutkovsky, a conspirator
Interesting facts
Lenin in 1918 is a Soviet biographical drama film released in 1939. It gives the background of the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution.
Production
The shooting started on 10 August 1938 and lasted for eighty-seven days. Shchukin never saw Lenin in real life, but he did intense research, immersing himself in everything related to him. During the production of Lenin in 1918, Boris Shchukin constantly suffered from ill health. Exactly six months after his appearance in the film and while a sequel was being developed Shchukin died.
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