A Lesson in History
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Directed by | Lev Arnshtam Hristo Piskov |
Written by | Lev Arnshtam Hristo Piskov |
Cinematography | Yu-Lan Chen Aleksandr Shelenkov |
Music by | Kara Karaev |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Countries | Soviet Union Bulgaria |
Languages | Russian Bulgarian |
A Lesson in History (Russian: Урок истории, Bulgarian: Урокът на историята) is a 1957 joint Soviet–Bulgarian biographical film directed by Lev Arnshtam and Hristo Piskov about Georgi Dimitrov and the Leipzig Trial.
Plot
The year is 1933. Georgi Dimitrov (Stefan Savov) comes to Berlin to establish links with the local Bulgarian communists. The Nazi leaders are doing their best to break the resistance of the Communists. Hermann Göring (Yuri Averin) conceives a provocation: during the arson of the Reichstag, his associate must be caught with a ticket of a member of the Communist Party. The Reichstag is set on fire, the provocateur Marinus van der Lubbe (Georgi Kaloyanchev) and the deputy of the Reichstag Ernst Torgler are arrested. Mass repressions against Communists are commencing. Dimitrov also falls in the hands of the Nazi court. However, in the courtroom, workers, including Heinrich Lange (Gennadi Yudin), prove the falsehood of the accusation. The National Socialists are forced to free Dimitrov. The Soviet government grants him the right of political asylum.
Cast
- Stefan Savov – Georgi Dimitrov
- Tzvetana Arnaudova – Paraskeva Dimitrova
- Ivan Tonev – Stefcho
- Gennadi Yudin – Heinrich Lange
- Borya Burlyaev – Vili Lange
- Apollon Yachnitskiy – Hitler
- Yuri Averin – Gyoring
- Pyotr Berezov – Himler
- Encho Tagarov – Gyobels
- Nikolay Volkov – Heldorf
External links
- 1957 films
- Soviet films
- Bulgarian films
- Mosfilm films
- Films directed by Lev Arnshtam
- Georgi Dimitrov
- Bulgarian biographical films
- Soviet biographical films
- Russian biographical films
- Bulgarian historical films
- Soviet historical films
- Russian historical films
- Cultural depictions of politicians
- Cultural depictions of Bulgarian men
- Films set in the 1930s
- Bulgarian film stubs
- 1950s Soviet film stubs