Lenin in Paris

Lenin in Paris
(Ленин в Париже)
Lenin in Paris; (Ленин в Париже)
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
Production; company	Mosfilm
Release date	18 October 1981;
Running time	106 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Lenin in Paris (Russian: Ленин в Париже, romanized: Lenin v Parizhe) is a Soviet biopic directed by Sergei Yutkevich in 1981 on Mosfilm.

Synopsis

Russian 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

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

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