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.
Cast & crew
Mikhail RommDirector
Boris ShchukinVladimir Ilich Lenin
Nikolai OkhlopkovVasily
Vasili VaninFactory Foreman Matveyev
Nikolai ArskyBlinov, worker (as N. Arsky)
Nikolai ChaplyginKirilin
Vladimir VladislavskiyKarnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky)
Semyon GoldshtabJosef Stalin
Nikolai SvobodinRutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary
