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

(1925)

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Genres: Documentary

Year: 1925

Runtime: 29 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Дзига Вертов

Cast: Владимир Ленин, Иосиф Сталин, Надежда Крупская, Anna Ulyanova, Феликс Дзержинский, Mikhail Frunze, Leonid Krasin, Емельян Ярославский, Mikhail Kalinin, Clara Zetkin

Plot

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