Plot Summary

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.

Movie Details

Original Title
Телец
Status
released
Original Language
ru

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Production Companies

Gosfilmfond Russia logoGosfilmfond Russia
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation logoMinistry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Lenfilm logoLenfilm