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December 20th 1982 Directed by Grigori Nikulin 20 декабря

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.

Production Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Spoken Language Russian
Gneres Drama , History , TV Movie
Production Companies Lenfilm , Gosteleradio USSR
Release Date 18 May 1982
276 mins
Cast
Kirill Lavrov
Kirill Lavrov Lenin
Mikhail Kozakov
Mikhail Kozakov Dzerzhinsky
Andrei Tolubeyev
Andrei Tolubeyev Latsis
Emmanuil Vitorgan
Emmanuil Vitorgan Lazarev
Anatoliy Rudakov
Anatoliy Rudakov Gus
Oleg Palmov
Oleg Palmov Горошин сообщник
Sergey Pizhel
Sergey Pizhel
Igor Komarov
Igor Komarov
Lev Zhukov
Lev Zhukov
Aleksandr Parra
Aleksandr Parra
Aleksandr Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Aleksandrov Pyotr
Nadezhda Mikhaylova
Nadezhda Mikhaylova Земфира
Crew
Director
Grigori Nikulin
Grigori Nikulin
Writer
Yulian Semyonov
Yulian Semyonov
Composer
Viktor Lebedev
Viktor Lebedev
Original Writer
Yulian Semyonov
Yulian Semyonov