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.
Cast
- KKonstantin MüfkeVladimir Lenin
Mikheil GelovaniJosef Stalin- BBoris PoltavtsevSverdlov
Spartak BagashviliGiorgi Gudushauri
Tamara MakarovaNurse Svetlana- AAnna SmirnovaSvetlana's Mother
Vasiliy MatovErshov
Dmitri IvanovPanasiuk
Georgi SagaradzeTsereteli (as G. Sagaradze)- MMikhail ChikhladzeCol. Mikeladze
Ivane PerestianiGeneral
Aleksandre JorjolianiMedical officer
Shalva GambashidzeKaroumidze
Giorgi ShavgulidzePavel Gudushauri
Nutsa ChkheidzeMother Gudushauri (bit)
Crew
- Director
- Mikheil Chiaureli
- Producers
- L. Totadze
- Music
- Ivane Gokieli
- Cinematography
- Alexander Dighmelashvili
- Editing
- E. Gabriel
Details
- Released
- November 6, 1938
- Language
- KA
- Studio
- Tbilisi Film Studio
- IMDb
- tt0030928
