Taurus (2001)
Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.
Director:
Aleksandr Sokurov
Writer:
Yuriy Arabov
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Leonid Mozgovoy as Lenin |
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Mariya Kuznetsova as Krupskaya |
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Sergei Razhuk as Stalin |
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Natalya Nikulenko as sister |
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Lev Eliseev as doctor |
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Nikolay Ustinov as |
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Aleksandr Chaban as |
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Fyodor Lavrov as |
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Boris Voytsekhovskiy as |
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Maxim Sergeev as |
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Valentina Kasyanova as |
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Pavel Kornakov as |
| Directing | Aleksandr Sokurov | Director |
| Writing | Yuriy Arabov | Screenplay |
| Directing | Sergei Razhuk | Assistant Director |
| Production | Tatyana Komarova | Casting Director |
| Production | Viktor Sergeev | Producer |
| Production | Vladimir Persov | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Anatoliy Rodionov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Natalya Kochergina | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lidiya Kryukova | Costume Design |
| Sound | Andrey Sigle | Music |
| Editing | Leda Semyonova | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Zhanna Rodionova | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Sergey Moshkov | Sound Designer |
| Camera | Aleksandr Sokurov | Director of Photography |