Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917.
Boris Shchukin
as Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Nikolai Okhlopkov
as Vasily
Vasili Vanin
as Factory Foreman Matveyev
Nikolai Arsky
as Blinov, worker (as N. Arsky)
Nikolai Chaplygin
as Kirilin
Vladimir Vladislavskiy
as Karnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky)
Semyon Goldshtab
as Josef Stalin
Nikolai Svobodin
as Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary
Vadim Ganshin
as Zhukov, the Menshevik
Yelena Shatrova
as Anna Mikhailovna