Lenin in Poland
(Ленин в Польше)
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Directed bySergei Yutkevich
Jan Rutkiewicz
Written byYevgeny Gabrilovich
Sergei Yutkevich
StarringMaksim Shtraukh
CinematographyJan Laskowski
Release date
  • 21 April 1966 (1966-04-21)
Running time
98 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Lenin in Poland (Russian: Ленин в Польше, romanized: Lenin v Polshe) is a 1966 Soviet historical drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich. Yutkevich won the award for Best Director at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Actual events

In the summers of 1913 and 1914 Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya rented a holiday home in Biały Dunajec and often stayed in a nearby Poronin inn. The area formed part of Austria-Hungary at that time (as a result of the Partitions of Poland), and when World War I broke out in mid-1914 the Austrian authorities arrested Lenin on suspicion of spying for Russia (August 1914), but deported him to Switzerland soon after (September 1914), after Lenin's defenders convinced the authorities that Lenin was actually an enemy of the Russian government..[2][3]

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Lenin in Poland". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  2. ^ Read, Christopher (11 January 2013). Lenin: A Revolutionary Life. Routledge Historical Biographies. London: Routledge. p. 105. ISBN 9781134624713. On 7 August their holiday home in Poronin, near Zakopane, was raided by Austrian police. [...] The following day, Lenin was arrested. Through the good offices of the Austrian Social-Democratic leader, Victor Adler, he was released and Lenin and Krupskaya were able to leave, via Vienna, for neutral Switzerland where they arrived on 5 September.
  3. ^ Le Blanc, Paul (17 June 2014). Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine. Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Chicago: Haymarket Books. p. 30. ISBN 9781608463664. Retrieved 27 August 2023. Lenin had moved to Krakow, in Austrian Poland, in 1912. After the outbreak of war in 1914 he was deported to Switzerland.

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Films by Sergei Yutkevich
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