Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin (1925)
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel made to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilich Lenin (21st January 1924 - 1925) drawn from 'The Final Journey', a Pravda feuilleton written on the occasion of Lenin's funeral by the man who had introduced Vertov to cinema, Mikhail Koltsov. Contains: First anniversary of Lenin's death: 1. Assassination attempt on Lenin and Soviet Russia's progress under his leadership / 2. Lenin's illness, death and funeral / 3. The year after Lenin's death
Director: Dziga Vertov
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Vladimir Lenin as Himself (archive footage) |
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Joseph Stalin as Himself (archive footage) |
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Nadezhda Krupskaya as Herself (archive footage) |
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Anna Ulyanova as Herself (archive footage) |
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Felix Dzerzhinsky as Himself (archive footage) |
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Mikhail Frunze as Himself (archive footage) |
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Leonid Krasin as Himself (archive footage) |
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Yemelyan Yaroslavsky as Himself (archive footage) |
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Mikhail Kalinin as Himself (archive footage) |
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Clara Zetkin as Herself (archive footage) |
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Kliment Voroshilov as Himself (archive footage) |
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Semyon Budyonny as Himself (archive footage) |
| Directing | Dziga Vertov | Director |
| Camera | Grigory Giber | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Aleksandr Levickii | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Aleksandr Lemberg | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Mikhail Kaufman | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Petr Novitskii | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Eduard Tisse | Director of Photography |