Lenin in 1918

Lenin in 1918
Lenin in 1918
	Film poster
Directed by	Mikhail Romm
Written by	Taisiya Zlatogorova; Aleksei Kapler
Starring	Boris Shchukin; Mikheil Gelovani; Nikolay Bogolyubov; Nikolay Cherkasov; Nikolay Okhlopkov
Cinematography
Music by	Nikolai Kryukov
Production; company	Mosfilm
Release date	1939;
Running time	130 minutes; 105 minutes (cut version)
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Lenin in 1918 (Russian: Ленин в 1918 году, Lenin v 1918 godu) is a Soviet biographical drama 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[]

Boris Shchukin as Vladimir Lenin
Mikheil Gelovani as Joseph Stalin (removed from cut version)
Nikolay Bogolyubov as Kliment Voroshilov
Nikolay Cherkasov as Maxim Gorky
as Felix Dzerzhinsky
as Yakov Sverdlov
Zoya Dobina as Nadezhda Krupskaya
Nikolay Okhlopkov as comrade Vasily, Lenin's assistant and bodyguard
Klavdiya Korobova as Natalya, Vasily's wife
Vasili Vanin as Kremlin commandant Matveyev
as Yevdokiya Ivanovna, Lenin's housekeeper
Iosif Tolchanov as Andrei Fyodorovich, physician
as professor
as Stepan Ivanovich Korobov, old St. Petersburg proletarian
Serafim Kozminsky as Bobylyov, Lenin's assistant
Nikolai Plotnikov as kulak from Tambov Governorate
Nikolai Svobodin as Valerian Rutkovsky, socialist revolutionary
Viktor Tretyakov as Ivan Grigoryevich Novikov, socialist revolutionary
as Fanny Kaplan
as Konstantinov, counter-revolutionary conspiracy organizer
as Sintsov, chekist-traitor
as Polyakov (uncredited)
as Nikolai Bukharin (uncut version, uncredited)
Rostislav Plyatt as military expert (uncut version, uncredited)
Georgy Bogatov as Vyacheslav Molotov (uncredited)
Anatoli Papanov as episode (uncredited)

Production[]

The shooting started on August 10, 1938 and lasted for eighty-seven days. Shchukin never saw Lenin in real life, but he did intense research, immersing 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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