December 20th

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 18, 1982

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Lenfilm,Gosteleradio USSR

Cast

Emmanuil Vitorgan,Anatoliy Rudakov,Andrei Tolubeyev,Nikolay Marufov,Igor Komarov,Aleksandr Parra,Nadezhda Mikhaylova,Oleg Palmov,Lev Zhukov,Kirill Lavrovand 4 more

Director

Grigori Nikulin

Writer

Yulian Semyonov

Music

Viktor Lebedev

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0231006