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.
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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
Aleksandr Kovalevsky as Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerenski
Nikolai Sokolov as Mikhail Vladimir Rodzyanko
Klavdiya Korobova as Natasha, Vasily's wife (as K. Korobova)
Vladimir Pokrovskiy as Dzerzhinsky (as V. Pokrovsky)