The Great Dawn (1938)
In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.
- Released
- 1938-11-06
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Runtime
- 73 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Mikheil Chiaureli
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 from 6 votes
Cast
- Konstantin Müfke as Vladimir Lenin
- Mikheil Gelovani as Josef Stalin
- Boris Poltavtsev as Sverdlov
- Spartak Bagashvili as Giorgi Gudushauri
- Tamara Makarova as Nurse Svetlana
- Anna Smirnova as Svetlana's Mother
- Vasiliy Matov as Ershov
- Dmitri Ivanov as Panasiuk
- Georgi Sagaradze as Tsereteli (as G. Sagaradze)
- Mikhail Chikhladze as Col. Mikeladze
- Ivane Perestiani as General
- Aleqsandre Jorjoliani as Medical officer