Lenin in October
About Lenin in October
Lenin (Boris Shchukin) arrives in secret at the Petrograd station and is taken through the cordon by his bodyguard Vasily (Nikolay Okhlopkov). He meets Stalin, played in the first version by Semyon Goldshtab. The Bolshevik Central Committee plans the uprising. Factories prepare. The cruiser Aurora fires the blank that starts the attack on the Winter Palace. The film stresses that Kamenev and Zinoviev tried to betray the plan and failed. It ends at the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, where Lenin says the workers' and peasants' revolution has been accomplished.
Cast & crew
More about Lenin in October
Mikhail Romm and Dmitri Vasilyev directed. Aleksei Kapler wrote it. Made at Mosfilm for Goskino and released on 7 November 1937, the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution. Anatoly Alexandrov wrote the music. Boris Volchek is the cinematographer listed on Wikidata.
Themes
Background
A 1937 Mosfilm picture released on the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution.
Music
Anatoly Alexandrov composed the score.
Preservation
The 1958 reissue removed the Stalin scenes. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- For the 1958 reissue, every scene with Stalin was cut, as part of de-Stalinization.
- Vasili Vanin plays the Bolshevik Matveyev. Aleksandr Kovalevsky plays Kerensky. Vladimir Pokrovsky plays Dzerzhinsky.
- Romm and Vasilyev followed it with Lenin in 1918 (1939).
Scenes
- Vasily walks Lenin through the cordon at the Petrograd station.
- The Aurora's blank shot opens the attack on the Winter Palace.
Influenced
- Lenin in 1918 (1939)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Lenin in October (film) 1937.webm)
Quotes
Comrades! The workers' and peasants' revolution, the necessity of which the Bolsheviks have always spoken of, has been accomplished!
