December 20th

May 18, 1982

4h 36m

★ 4.6

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.

Genres

History

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Lenfilm

Gosteleradio USSR

December 20th Trailers

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Cast

Lenin

Kirill Lavrov

Dzerzhinsky

Mikhail Kozakov

Latsis

Andrei Tolubeyev

Lazarev

Emmanuil Vitorgan

Gus

Anatoliy Rudakov

Горошин сообщник

Oleg Palmov

Sergey Pizhel

Igor Komarov

Lev Zhukov

Aleksandr Parra

Pyotr

Aleksandr Aleksandrov

Земфира

Nadezhda Mikhaylova

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