Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin (1925) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1925 · 33 mins

Directed by

Dziga Vertov

Starring

Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Leonid Krasin, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Kliment Voroshilov

Directed by Dziga Vertov, this Soviet newsreel marks the first anniversary of Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death. It draws on Mikhail Koltsov’s Pravda feuilleton ‘The Final Journey’ and is organized into three parts: the 1918 assassination attempt and Soviet progress under Lenin; his illness, death and funeral; and a view of the nation one year later.