Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin (1925): Cast

Directed by Dziga Vertov, this Soviet newsreel marks the first anniversary of Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death. It draws on Mikhail Koltsov’s Pravda feuilleton ‘The Final Journey’ and is organized into three parts: the 1918 assassination attempt and Soviet progress under Lenin; his illness, death and funeral; and a view of the nation one year later.

• DV Director Dziga Vertov

• Joseph Stalin as themselves
• VL Vladimir Lenin as themselves
• MK Mikhail Kalinin as themselves
• KV Kliment Voroshilov as themselves

• For You at the Front! 1942
• In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze 1937
• Three Songs About Lenin 1934
• Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality 1924

Also known as

• Cineverità n. 21
• Cinema - Truth # 21
• Kino-Pravda n° 21 : un cinépoème sur Lénine
• 真实电影第21号