December 20th (1982)
Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.
Director: Grigori Nikulin
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Kirill Lavrov as Lenin |
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Mikhail Kozakov as Dzerzhinsky |
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Andrei Tolubeyev as Latsis |
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Emmanuil Vitorgan as Lazarev |
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Anatoliy Rudakov as Gus |
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Oleg Palmov as Горошин сообщник |
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Sergey Pizhel as |
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Igor Komarov as |
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Lev Zhukov as |
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Aleksandr Parra as |
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Aleksandr Aleksandrov as Pyotr |
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Nadezhda Mikhaylova as Земфира |
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Azamat Bagirov as Иосиф Станиславович Уншлихт |
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Nikolay Marufov as Kondratyev |
| Sound | Viktor Lebedev | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Grigori Nikulin | Director |
| Writing | Yulian Semyonov | Writer |
| Writing | Yulian Semyonov | Novel |
| Art | Mikhail Ivanov | Production Design |