The Great Dawn

The Great Dawn

1938 · 73 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama, War

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.

Directed by Mikheil Chiaureli · Written by Giorgi Tsagareli

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Konstantin Müfke Vladimir Lenin
Mikheil Gelovani Josef Stalin
Boris Poltavtsev Sverdlov
Spartak Bagashvili Giorgi Gudushauri
Tamara Makarova Nurse Svetlana
Anna Smirnova Svetlana's Mother
Vasiliy Matov Ershov
Dmitri Ivanov Panasiuk
Georgi Sagaradze Tsereteli (as G. Sagaradze)
Mikhail Chikhladze Col. Mikeladze
Ivane Perestiani General
Aleqsandre Jorjoliani Medical officer

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