Lenin in 1918

Lenin in 1918
(Ленин в 1918 году)
Lenin in 1918; (Ленин в 1918 году)
	Film poster
Directed by	Mikhail Romm
Production; company	Mosfilm
Release date	1939;
Running time	131 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Lenin in 1918 (Russian: Ленин в 1918 году, Lenin v 1918 godu) is a 130-minute-long Soviet propaganda film released in 1939. It gives the background of the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution.^[1]

The film was directed by Mikhail Romm with E. Aron and I. Simkov as co-directors. The script was written by Aleksei Kapler together with Taisiya Zlatogorova.

Cast (in credits order)

Boris Shchukin as Vladimir Lenin
Nikolai Okhlopkov as Vasili, Lenin's protégé
Aleksandr Shatov as Konstantinov, conspirator chieftain
V. Markov as Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
Vasili Vanin as Kremlin Commandant Mateyev
Nikolai Cherkasov as Maksim Gorky
Leonid Lyubashevsky as Yakov Sverdlov
Vladimir Solovyov as Sintsov, a spy
Nikolai Svobodin as Rutkovsky, a conspirator
V. Tretyakov as Novikov, a conspirator
Natalie Efron as Fanny Kaplan
E. Muzil as Yevdokia Ivanova, Lenin's housekeeper
Mikheil Gelovani as Joseph Stalin (scenes deleted for reissues after Stalin's death and denunciation)
Nikolai Bogolyubov as Kliment Voroshilov (scenes deleted for reissues after Stalin's death and denunciation)
Z. Dobina as Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
S. Koziminsky as Bobilev, Lenin's orderly
K. Korobova as Vasili's Wife
Dmitri Orlov as Korobov, farm worker
Nikolai Plotnikov as Kulak from Tamborsk
Iosif Tolchanov as Andrei Fedorovich, attending physician
A. Khokhlov as Professor of Medicine

Production

The shooting started on August 10th 1938 and lasted for eighty-seven days. Shchukin never saw Lenin in real life, but he did intense research, immsersing himself in everything related to him. During the production of Lenin in 1918, Boris Shchukin constantly suffered from ill health. Exactly six months after his appearance in the film and while a sequel was being developed Shchukin died.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 352–353.

External links

Lenin in 1918 at IMDb

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[leyda-1] Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 352–353.

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