Synopsis
1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the political struggles of the post-revolutionary years.
Ratings
IMDb5/10
13 audience votes
Key crew
- Sergei YutkevichDirector
- Yevgeni GabrilovichWriter
- Sergei YutkevichWriter
- Grigori FridOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Yuriy KayurovLenin
- Claude JadeInessa Armand
- Vladimir AntonikTrofimow
- Valentina SvetlovaKrupskaya
- Pavel KadochnikovPaul Lafargue
- Antonina MaksimovaLaura Lafargue
- Boris IvanovJacob Zhitomirsky
- Albert FilozovAnarchist
- Vitaliy ShapovalovSailor
- Anatoli AdoskinAgitator
- Yelena KorenevaSinger
- Galina BelyaevaGirl in jeans
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Themes
paris, francerevolutionfrench revolutionbiographyinessa armandfalling in loveextramarital affairrussian revolution (1917)