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.
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
Klavdiya Korobova
Natasha, Vasily's wife (as K. Korobova)
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
Dzerzhinsky (as V. Pokrovsky)
Ivan Lagutin
Unknown
Crew
Mikhail Romm
Director
Dmitriy Vasilev
Co-Director
Aleksei Kapler
Writer
Tatyana Likhachyova
Editor
Esfir Tobak
Assistant Editor
Boris Volchek
Director of Photography
Isidor Simkov
Assistant Director
Igor Vakar
Executive Producer
Nikolay Privezentsev
Executive Producer
Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Production Design
Nikolai Solovyov
Production Design
Igor Gelein
Camera Operator
Era Savelyeva
Camera Operator
A. Yermolov
Makeup & Hair
Vladimir Bogdankevich
Sound Director
Boris Volsky
Sound
Anatoliy Aleksandrov
Original Music Composer
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