Lenin in Paris (Russian: Ленин в Париже, romanized: Lenin v Parizhe) is a Soviet biopic directed by Sergei Yutkevich in 1981 on Mosfilm.
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| Directed by | Sergei Yutkevich Leonid Eidlin |
| Written by | Yevgeny Gabrilovich Sergei Yutkevich |
| Starring | Yuri Kayurov Claude Jade Vladimir Antonik Pavel Kadochnikov |
| Music by | Grigory Frid |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Synopsis
editRussian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin spent four years in Paris (1909–1912), and this historical docudrama explores those years with a certain amount of humor. Lenin is shown visiting with friends, the meetings with his later mistress Inessa Armand (in the movie she is in love with a young communist, Trofimov), while several of his philosophical views and economic and political theories are mouthed by a former colleague who narrates the film and brings the material into the present.
Cast
edit- Yuri Kayurov as Vladimir Lenin
- Claude Jade as Inessa Armand
- Vladimir Antonik as Aleksandr Trofimov
- Valentina Svetlova as Nadezhda Krupskaya
- Pavel Kadochnikov as Paul Lafargue
- Antonina Maksimova as Laura Lafargue
- Boris Ivanov as Jacob Zhitomirsky
- Sergei Pozharsky as Montéhus
- Albert Filozov as leader of the anarchists
- Yelena Koreneva as singer at Montéhus (singing voice by Carolyn Claire)
- Galina Belyayeva as student
- Sergei Prokhanov as courier
- Anatoly Adoskin as agitator-menshevik
- Olegar Fedoro as Montmarte painter
