In a single continuous take, the film explores the history of Russia through a mysterious unnamed protagonist who wanders through the Winter Palace of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
In the midst of the Russian Revolution, a group of Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky overthrow the provisional government and seize control of the Winter Palace. The film captures the unrest and social discontent that led to the revolution, as well as the ensuing power struggle within the Bolshevik party.
Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and the Soviet Union. In December 1917, the Finnish delegation, composed of Chairman of the Senate Finance Department P.E. Svinhufvud (Vilho Siivola), Senator Carl Enckell (Yrjö Tähtelä) and State Secretary Gustaf Idman (Yrjö Paulo) arrive in St. Petersburg to meet V.I. Lenin (Kirill Lavrov) to gain recognition for the country's independence.
Set during the Russian Revolution, a law professor is detained and eventually released. He struggles to adapt to the changes brought about by the revolution, including communism and the reform of housing. The film explores themes of progress, revolution, and the impact of political change on individuals.
Soviet propaganda film in two episodes about Stalin's strong and cruel suppression of the 1919 anti-communist uprising in St. Petersburg, Russia. Stalin and Lenin are shown as heroes who destroyed the efforts of anti-communists led by White Russians with support from "bad" British capitalists headed by Sir Winston Churchill and Lloyd George.
The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades.
The fate of Tanya Ognevaya, whose image reflects the features of Liza Pylaeva (1898-1926), the first chairwoman of the Socialist Youth Union.
In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.
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