2001
5.7 (27 votes)
1h 44m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Gosfilmfond Russia
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Lenfilm
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Lenfilm
Taurus (Телец)
Overview
Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.
Key Crew
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Screenplay: Yuriy Arabov
Producer: Viktor Sergeev
Director of Photography: Anatoliy Rodionov, Aleksandr Sokurov
