Lenin in Paris

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

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 (1981-10-18)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

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

External links

• Lenin in Paris at IMDb
• Artikel zum Film Lenin in Paris
• Original Movieposter "Lenin in Paris"