The Great Dawn

The Great Dawn (1938)

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In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.

Director: Mikheil Chiaureli

Casts

	Konstantin Müfke as Vladimir Lenin
	Mikheil Gelovani as Josef Stalin
	Boris Poltavtsev as Sverdlov
	Spartak Bagashvili as Giorgi Gudushauri
	Tamara Makarova as Nurse Svetlana
	Anna Smirnova as Svetlana's Mother
	Vasiliy Matov as Ershov
	Dmitri Ivanov as Panasiuk
	Georgi Sagaradze as Tsereteli (as G. Sagaradze)
	Mikhail Chikhladze as Col. Mikeladze
	Ivane Perestiani as General
	Aleksandre Jorjoliani as Medical officer
	Shalva Gambashidze as Karoumidze
	Giorgi Shavgulidze as Pavel Gudushauri
	Nutsa Chkheidze as Mother Gudushauri (bit)

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