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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
Release Date: 1925, January 21
Directors: Dziga Vertov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Культкино, Goskino USSR
Cast: Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Mikhail Kalinin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Semyon Budyonny, Kliment Voroshilov, Anna Ulyanova, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Mikhail Frunze, Leonid Krasin, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Clara Zetkin

Overview:

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

Keywords:

short film russian revolution (1917) silent film newsreel