(1937)Directed by Mikhail Romm93 minDrama, History

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.

Boris Shchukinas Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Nikolai Okhlopkovas Vasily

Vasili Vaninas Factory Foreman Matveyev

Nikolai Arskyas Blinov, worker (as N. Arsky)

Nikolai Chaplyginas Kirilin

Vladimir Vladislavskiyas Karnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky)

Semyon Goldshtabas Josef Stalin

Nikolai Svobodinas Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary

Vadim Ganshinas Zhukov, the Menshevik

Yelena Shatrovaas Anna Mikhailovna

Aleksandr Kovalevskyas Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerenski

Nikolai Sokolovas Mikhail Vladimir Rodzyanko

Klavdiya Korobovaas Natasha, Vasily's wife (as K. Korobova)

Vladimir Pokrovskiyas Dzerzhinsky (as V. Pokrovsky)

Ivan Lagutin

Vasiliy Lukyanovas Worker