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Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.

Top Cast

  • Leonid Mozgovoy

    Leonid Mozgovoy

    Lenin

  • Mariya Kuznetsova

    Mariya Kuznetsova

    Krupskaya

  • Sergei Razhuk

    Sergei Razhuk

    Stalin

  • Natalya Nikulenko

    Natalya Nikulenko

    sister

  • Lev Eliseev

    Lev Eliseev

    doctor

  • Nikolay Ustinov

    Nikolay Ustinov

  • Aleksandr Chaban

    Aleksandr Chaban

  • Fyodor Lavrov

    Fyodor Lavrov

  • Boris Voytsekhovskiy

    Boris Voytsekhovskiy

Overview

Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.

Rating

5.8 / 10
30 Reviews
1 Popular

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