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.
DirectorMikhail Romm
WritersAleksei Kapler
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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
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LanguageRussian
Production companiesMosfilm