December 20th

(1982)

★ 5.4 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: History, Drama, телевизионный фильм

Year: 1982

Runtime: 276 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Григорий Никулин

Cast: Кирилл Лавров, Михаил Козаков, Андрей Толубеев, Эммануил Виторган, Анатолий Рудаков, Олег Пальмов, Сергей Пижель, Игорь Комаров, Лев Жуков, Александр Парра

Plot

Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.