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

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

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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