Released:
2001-02-24

Overview:
Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.

Director:
Aleksandr Sokurov

Runtime:
1h 44min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Leonid Mozgovoy
  as
  Lenin
• 
  Mariya Kuznetsova
  as
  Krupskaya
• 
  Sergei Razhuk
  as
  Stalin
• 
  Natalya Nikulenko
  as
  sister
• 
  Lev Eliseev
  as
  doctor