Released:
1982-05-18

Overview:
Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.

Director:
Grigori Nikulin

Runtime:
4h 36min

Genre:
History, Drama, TV Movie

• Cast:
• 
  Kirill Lavrov
  as
  Lenin
• 
  Mikhail Kozakov
  as
  Dzerzhinsky
• 
  Andrei Tolubeyev
  as
  Latsis
• 
  Emmanuil Vitorgan
  as
  Lazarev
• 
  Anatoliy Rudakov
  as
  Gus