Yuri SOROKIN
Юрий СОРОКИН
Youri SOROKINE
Russia, 1995, 220mn 
fiction, serial
Under the Sign of Scorpio
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Под знаком скорпиона

 

 Sous le signe du scorpion

 Pod znakom skorpiona

 
Directed by : Yuri SOROKIN (Юрий СОРОКИН)
Writing credits : Aleksandr LAPSHIN (Александр ЛАПШИН)
 
Cast
Valery POROSHIN (Валерий ПОРОШИН) ...Gorky
Rim AIUPOV (Рим АЮПОВ) ...Lenin
Igor KVASHA (Игорь КВАША) ...Stalin
Viktor STEPANOV (Виктор СТЕПАНОВ) ...Fyodor Shalyapin
Yelena AMINOVA (Елена АМИНОВА) ...Mariya Ignatyevna Zakrevskaya-Benkendorf
Irina CHERICHENKO (Ирина ЧЕРИЧЕНКО)
Nikita DZHIGURDA (Никита ДЖИГУРДА)
Irina GUBANOVA (Ирина ГУБАНОВА) ...Mariya Ignatyevna Zakrevskaya-Benkendorf
Gosha KUTSENKO (Гоша КУЦЕНКО) ...Maksim Peshkov
Aleksey SAFONOV (Алексей САФОНОВ) ...Zinovyev
Valery SMYETSKOY (Валерий СМЕЦКОЙ) ...Khodassyevich
 
Cinematography : Boris DUNAYEV (Борис ДУНАЕВ)
Production design : Alfred TALANTSEV (Альфред ТАЛАНЦЕВ)
Music : Yuri BUTSKO (Юрий БУЦКО)
Produced by : Lyudmila MISHAKOVA (Людмила МИШАКОВА), Ulrich YON (Ульрих ЙОН)
Character(s) : Vladimir LENIN (Владимир ЛЕНИН)
Production : Gorky Film Studio, Йонас Фильм, Neuhaus+Neuhaus, ТО Экран
Release date in Russia : 01/07/1996
 
Sites : kinopoisk, imdb
Plot synopsis
Historical-biographical dilogy on Maksim Gorky's life. 1917 events happened under the sign of Scorpio. And as predicted by astrologers, they led Russia into a fatal spiral of self-destruction. Film main theme is the moral drama of Gorky, being himself involved in the swirl of this fateful period...
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Lenin in Russian and Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
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