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December 20th

December 20th (1982)

4h 36m | PG-13

⭐ 4.6 / 10

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.

Director: Grigori Nikulin

Studio: Lenfilm

Genre: History, Drama, TV Movie

Video: 720p

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Cast

Kirill Lavrov

Kirill Lavrov

as Lenin

Mikhail Kozakov

Mikhail Kozakov

as Dzerzhinsky

Andrei Tolubeyev

Andrei Tolubeyev

as Latsis

Emmanuil Vitorgan

Emmanuil Vitorgan

as Lazarev

Anatoliy Rudakov

Anatoliy Rudakov

as Gus

Oleg Palmov

Oleg Palmov

as Горошин сообщник