Lenin in October (1937)
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.
Director: Mikhail Romm
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Boris Shchukin as Vladimir Ilich Lenin |
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Nikolai Okhlopkov as Vasily |
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Vasili Vanin as Factory Foreman Matveyev |
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Nikolai Arsky as Blinov, worker (as N. Arsky) |
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Nikolai Chaplygin as Kirilin |
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Vladimir Vladislavskiy as Karnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky) |
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Semyon Goldshtab as Josef Stalin |
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Nikolai Svobodin as Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary |
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Vadim Ganshin as Zhukov, the Menshevik |
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Yelena Shatrova as Anna Mikhailovna |
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Aleksandr Kovalevsky as Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerenski |
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Nikolai Sokolov as Mikhail Vladimir Rodzyanko |
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Klavdiya Korobova as Natasha, Vasily's wife (as K. Korobova) |
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Vladimir Pokrovskiy as Dzerzhinsky (as V. Pokrovsky) |
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Ivan Lagutin as |
| Directing | Mikhail Romm | Director |
| Writing | Aleksei Kapler | Writer |
| Editing | Tatyana Likhachyova | Editor |
| Sound | Anatoliy Aleksandrov | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Isidor Simkov | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Boris Volchek | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Dmitriy Vasilev | Co-Director |
| Camera | Igor Gelein | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Era Savelyeva | Camera Operator |
| Art | Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke | Production Design |
| Art | Nikolai Solovyov | Production Design |
| Sound | Vladimir Bogdankevich | Sound Director |
| Sound | Boris Volsky | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | A. Yermolov | Makeup & Hair |
| Editing | Esfir Tobak | Assistant Editor |
| Production | Igor Vakar | Executive Producer |
| Production | Nikolay Privezentsev | Executive Producer |