Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925 · 33m · Not Rated
Documentary
Directed by
Dziga Vertov
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
Director and cast
- Dziga Vertov Director
- Vladimir Lenin as Himself (archive footage)
- Joseph Stalin as Himself (archive footage)
- Nadezhda Krupskaya as Herself (archive footage)
- Anna Ulyanova as Herself (archive footage)
- Felix Dzerzhinsky as Himself (archive footage)
- Mikhail Frunze as Himself (archive footage)
- Leonid Krasin as Himself (archive footage)
- Yemelyan Yaroslavsky as Himself (archive footage)
- Mikhail Kalinin as Himself (archive footage)
- Clara Zetkin as Herself (archive footage)
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