''Lenin in Paris'' () is a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

biopic A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from docudrama films and histo ...

directed by

Sergei Yutkevich Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (, 28 December 1904 – 23 April 1985) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1962) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1974). Life and career He began work as a teen do ...

in 1981 on

Mosfilm Mosfilm (, ''Mosfil’m'' , initialism and portmanteau of Moscow Films) is a film studio in Moscow which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's fi ...

Synopsis

Russian revolutionary

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...

spent four years in Paris (1909–1912), and this historical docudrama explores those years with a certain amount of humor. Lenin is shown visiting with friends, the meetings with his later mistress

Inessa Armand Inessa Fyodorovna Armand (born Elisabeth-Inès Stéphane d'Herbenville; 8 May 1874 – 24 September 1920) was a French-Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and a feminist who spent most of her life in Russia. Armand, bein ...

(in the movie she is in love with a young communist, Trofimov), while several of his philosophical views and economic and political theories are mouthed by a former colleague who narrates the film and brings the material into the present.

Cast

* Yuri Kayurov as

Claude Jade Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade (; 8 October 1948 – 1 December 2006), was a French actress. She starred as Antoine Doinel#Christine Darbon, Christine in François Truffaut's three films ''Stolen Kisses'' (1968), ''Bed and B ...

* Vladimir Antonik as Aleksandr Trofimov *Valentina Svetlova as

Nadezhda Krupskaya Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya ( rus, links=no, Надежда Константиновна Крупская, p=nɐˈdʲeʐdə kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvnə ˈkrupskəjə; – 27 February 1939) was a Russian revolutionary, politician and politic ...

* Pavel Kadochnikov as

Paul Lafargue Paul Lafargue (; ; 15 January 1842 – 25 November 1911) was a Cuban-born French political writer, economist, journalist, literary critic, and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law, having married his second daughter, Laura. His best known ...

*Antonina Maksimova as Laura Lafargue * Boris Ivanov as

Jacob Zhitomirsky Jacob (Yakov) Zhitomirsky (; party alias Otsov (); Okhrana aliases Andre and Daudet) was a prominent Bolshevik best known for being a secret agent of the Okhrana. Biography He was recruited by Okhrana in 1902, while studying at the University of ...

*Sergei Pozharsky as

Montéhus Gaston Mardochée Brunswick, better known by his pseudonym Montéhus (9 July 1872 – December 1952), was a French singer-songwriter. He was the writer of such notable songs as "Gloire au 17ème" and "La Butte Rouge". Biography Montéhus wa ...

Albert Filozov Albert Leonidovich Filozov (; 25 June 1937 – 11 April 2016) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia.

as leader of the anarchists * Yelena Koreneva as singer at Montéhus (singing voice by Carolyn Claire) *

Galina Belyayeva Galina Viktorovna Belyaeva (; born 26 April 1961) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress, best known for her leading roles in '' A Hunting Accident'' (1977) and ''Anna Pavlova'' (1983). Belyaeva, the Meritorious Artist of Russia (2003 ...

as student * Sergei Prokhanov as courier *

Anatoly Adoskin Anatoly Mikhailovich Adoskin (; 23 November 1927 – 20 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian actor of theater and cinema. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1996). Biography Anatoly Adoskin graduated from the studio at the Mossovet Th ...

as agitator-menshevik *

Olegar Fedoro Olegar Fedoro ( ''né'' Olegár Pablo Fedóro; ; born 6 March 1958) is a Ukrainian-born former Soviet performer who later became a Spanish and then English actor. He enrolled in the acclaimed VGIK Film School (All-Russian State University of ...

as Montmarte painter

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