The Story of the Communist (1976)
A Soviet biographical documentary devoted to Leonid I. Brezhnev, portraying his life “at work and at home” and tracing his path from the son of a metalworker to General Secretary of the CPSU and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Directors: Igor Bessarabov, Aleksandr Kochetkov.
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Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as Narrator (voice) |
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Leonid Brezhnev as Himself |
| Directing | Igor Bessarabov | Director |
| Sound | Aleksandr Kholminov | Music |
| Writing | Vitali Ignatenko | Writer |
| Directing | Aleksandr Kochetkov | Director |
| Camera | Aleksandr Kochetkov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | N. Persidskaya | Script Editor |
| Writing | Leonid Zamyatin | Writer |
| Editing | A. Sum-Shik | Archival Footage Research |
| Sound | Irina Voskresenskaya | Sound Director |
| Directing | T. Chistyakova | Assistant Director |
| Directing | L. Zhukova | Assistant Director |
| Production | N. Skobeleva | Producer |