Nikolay DOSTAL
Николай ДОСТАЛЬ
Nikolaï DOSTAL
Russia, 2007, 532mn 
Zaveshchanie Lenina
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Завещание Ленина

 

 Le Testament de Lénine

 Zaveshchanie Lenina

 
Directed by : Nikolay DOSTAL (Николай ДОСТАЛЬ)
 
Cast
Alisa KHAZANOVA (Алиса ХАЗАНОВА)
Yelena LIADOVA (Елена ЛЯДОВА)
Irina ROZANOVA (Ирина РОЗАНОВА)
Yuri STEPANOV (Юрий СТЕПАНОВ)
 
 

Plot synopsis
The central theme of the film: "Tales from Kolyma" by Vralam Shalamov
The author of "Tales from Kolyma" and many other works spent 17 years in the dreaded GULAG camps in Kolyma. This exile to which Varlam Tikhonovitch was condemned in 1929 had been imposed on him because of the distribution of Lenin's letter addressed to the Congress in which he criticized Stalin. Now this letter is called "Lenin's Testament"...
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Sept films russes sur la survie dans l’enfer du goulag, Alexandra GOUZEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2021
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Stalin in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023

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