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Why does the man who built the Soviet state sit in a wheelchair at his Gorki estate in 1924, unable to command anyone but his own failing voice? Aleksandr Sokurov spends two days with Lenin (Leonid Mozgovoy) as his wife Krupskaya (Mariya Kuznetsova), his sister and a German doctor tend to him, and he talks of Marx and of death. Lenin rages at the speech and strength slipping from him, a ruler with no one left to order.