Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin (1925)

Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin

1925

Documentary

Synopsis

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel made to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilich Lenin (21st January 1924 - 1925) drawn from 'The Final Journey', a Pravda feuilleton written on the occasion of Lenin's funeral by the man who had introduced Vertov to cinema, Mikhail Koltsov. Contains: First anniversary of Lenin's death: 1. Assassination attempt on Lenin and Soviet Russia's progress under his leadership / 2. Lenin's illness, death and funeral / 3. The year after Lenin's death

Credits

Director

Dziga Vertov

Cast

Anna Ulyanova as Herself (archive footage)

Clara Zetkin as Herself (archive footage)

Felix Dzerzhinsky as Himself (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin as Himself (archive footage)

Leonid Krasin as Himself (archive footage)

Mikhail Frunze as Himself (archive footage)

Mikhail Kalinin as Himself (archive footage)

Nadezhda Krupskaya as Herself (archive footage)