Three Songs About Lenin (1934)
Overview
This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ru |
| Popularity | 2.669 |
Directed By
Dziga Vertov
Crew
Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov
Ilya Kopalin
Dmitri Surensky
Semiramida Pumpyanskaya
Mark Magidson
Pyotr Shtro
Bentsion Monastyrsky
Elizaveta Svilova
Yuri Shaporin
TOP CAST
Dolores Ibárruri
Herself (archive footage)
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Herself (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Himself (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Himself
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