Prolog (1956)
After the brutal massacre of a peaceful demonstration of the working people on their way to the Tsar, Lenin and other Party members in exile call for an armed uprising of the workers. At Presnya build barricades. The people are arming themselves. But the heroic armed uprising of the workers of Presnya is brutally suppressed by the tsarist troops. However, the struggle of the workers under the leadership of Lenin continued.
Director: Efim Dzigan
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Nikolai Plotnikov as |
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Maria Pastukhova as |
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Pavel Kadochnikov as |
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Vladimir Solovyov as |
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Viktor Avdyushko as |
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Ivan Koval-Samborskiy as |
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Pavel Vinnik as |
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Vladimir Kolchin as |
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Efim Kopelyan as |
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Anna Zarzhitskaya as Maid |
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Konstantin Starostin as |
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Elena Savchenko as |
| Directing | Efim Dzigan | Director |
| Writing | Aleksandr Shtein | Writer |
| Camera | Boris Petrov | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Valentin Pavlov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Pyotr Kiselyov | Production Design |
| Art | Yevgeni Serganov | Production Design |
| Sound | Nikolai Kryukov | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Evgeniy Zilbershtein | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Lev Trakhtenberg | Sound Director |
| Editing | Gali Slavatinskaya | Editor |
| Editing | Polina Chechyotkina | Editor |
| Camera | Vladimir Meybom | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | A. Yermolov | Makeup & Hair |
| Writing | Anna Pankratova | Script Consultant |
| Visual Effects | Pyotr Malanichev | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Mikhail Semyonov | VFX Supervisor |
| Production | Pavel Danilyants | Producer |
| Sound | Veronika Dudarova | Conductor |