Overview
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
- Boris Shchukin as Vladimir Ilich Lenin
- Nikolai Okhlopkov as Vasily
- Vasili Vanin as Factory Foreman Matveyev
- Nikolai Arsky as Blinov, worker (as N. Arsky)
- Nikolai Chaplygin as Kirilin
- Vladimir Vladislavskiy as Karnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky)
- Semyon Goldshtab as Josef Stalin
- Nikolai Svobodin as Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary
- Vadim Ganshin as Zhukov, the Menshevik
- Yelena Shatrova as Anna Mikhailovna