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Title Lenin in October
Production Date 1937
Country of Production USSR
Duration 01:41:07
Production Company Mosfilm
Film Subject Era 1917-1924
Genre Drama
Summary Fictional account of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 which presents Lenin’s arrival undercover in Petrograd, the organisation of the workers’ uprising, and the storming of the Winter Palace.
Original Title Ленин в Октябре
Subjects Russian Revolution (1917); Bolsheviks; First World War (1914-1918); Civil wars; Imperialism; Capitalism; Police; Railways; Exiles; Social class; Government; Politics; Mensheviks; Workers; Assassinations; Military; Weapons; Soldiers; Socialism; Newspapers; Counter-revolutions; Women; Army; Navy; Communist Party (USSR); Political parties and movements
Director Romm, Mikhail
Cast
Cast member:
Shchukin, Boris, Okhlopkov, Nikolai, Vanin, Vasili, Svobodin, Nikolai, Kovalevsky, A., Goldshtab, S., Pokrovsky, Vladimir, Korobova, K., Shatrova, E.

Contributors
Screenplay:
Kapler, Aleksei

Camera:
Volchek, B.

Design:
Dubrovskiy-Eshke

People Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924); Sverdlov, Yakov (1885-1919); Kerensky, Alexander (1881-1970)
Places Russia; Leningrad (St Petersburg, Petrograd); Finland; USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Fiction/Non Fiction Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and White
Language English (Narrator); Russian (Dialogue)
Module Wars & Revolutions
BFI Identifier N-507196
Copyright The British Film Institute