December 20th

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.

• Release date
• May 18, 1982

Cast

Kirill Lavrov Lenin Mikhail Kozakov Dzerzhinsky Andrei Tolubeyev Latsis Emmanuil Vitorgan Lazarev Anatoliy Rudakov Gus Oleg Palmov Goroshin

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Sergey Pizhel Igor Komarov