Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin

Overview

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel made to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilich Lenin (21st January 1924 - 1925) drawn from 'The Final Journey', a Pravda feuilleton written on the occasion of Lenin's funeral by the man who had introduced Vertov to cinema, Mikhail Koltsov. Contains: First anniversary of Lenin's death: 1. Assassination attempt on Lenin and Soviet Russia's progress under his leadership / 2. Lenin's illness, death and funeral / 3. The year after Lenin's death

Cast

Vladimir Lenin

Himself (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Himself (archive footage)

Nadezhda Krupskaya

Herself (archive footage)

N/A

Anna Ulyanova

Herself (archive footage)

Felix Dzerzhinsky

Himself (archive footage)

Mikhail Frunze

Himself (archive footage)

N/A

Leonid Krasin

Himself (archive footage)

N/A

Yemelyan Yaroslavsky

Himself (archive footage)

Mikhail Kalinin

Himself (archive footage)

N/A

Clara Zetkin

Herself (archive footage)

Kliment Voroshilov

Himself (archive footage)

Semyon Budyonny

Himself (archive footage)