All My Lenins
All My Lenins, is a historical 1997 comedy film by Hardi Volmer. The topics are Russian Bolsheviks' coup d'état plans, World War I and Russian Revolution (1917).
Plot
In 1908, the young Estonian politician Aleksander Kesküla (Üllar Saaremäe) has escaped from Estonia, then part of the czarist Russian empire, to Switzerland. Kesküla is strongly concerned about the national oppression in the Russian empire. It is also the point of view of the famous Russian exile and bolshevik, Vladimir Lenin. (This role was played by Viktor Sukhorukov). Lenin believes czarist Russia to be "the prison of nations". Kesküla takes his last exams at the University of Bern. When World War I bursts into flame, Lenin views the Russian and German bourgeoisies to both have caused the war and so he begins to agitate "to end war even if Russia will be defeated."
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author | Toomas Kall |
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director | Hardi Volmer |
editor | Marju Juhkum |
genre | comedy historical |
keywords | aleksander kesküla bern bolshevik bolshevik party czarist doppelgängers estonia finnic finnic peoples leftist radical russian empire saint petersburg switzerland the national vladimir lenin world war i |
musicBy | Thomas DeRenzo |
producer | Mati Sepping |