December 20th

IMDb 5.4 1982 • 276 min • HistoryDramaTV Movie

Director

Grigori Nikulin

Country

SU

Plot Summary

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.

Top 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