Lenin in October

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.

Drama History

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