

Lenin in October
Drama
History
Overview
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.
Status:
Released
Release Date:
1937-11-07
Runtime:
1h 33m
Director:
Mikhail Romm
Writer:
Aleksei Kapler
Top Cast

Boris Shchukin
Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Nikolai Okhlopkov
Vasily

Vasili Vanin
Factory Foreman Matveyev

Nikolai Arsky
Blinov, worker (as N. Arsky)

Nikolai Chaplygin
Kirilin

Vladimir Vladislavskiy
Karnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky)

Semyon Goldshtab
Josef Stalin

Nikolai Svobodin
Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary

Vadim Ganshin
Zhukov, the Menshevik

Yelena Shatrova
Anna Mikhailovna

Aleksandr Kovalevsky
Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerenski

Nikolai Sokolov
Mikhail Vladimir Rodzyanko
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