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The project, significant in the era of the USSR, owes its appearance to the specific creative politicized competition between the Soviet film studios Lenfilm and Mosfilm. The fact is, on the eve of February 1936, a competition began to shoot a cinematic tape for the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The process was personally patronized by Stalin, and the leading filmmakers of that era were included in the committee. Until that time, the only screen recreation of the image of the leader of the proletariat was Eisenstein's work en titled "October". In the coming era of sound cinema, the incarnation of a major theoretician of Marxism was urgently needed.
Begin filming
The script of the film "Lenin in October" (1937) was returned several times for revision, no one wanted to take risks and take responsibility. The production process began in the spring, but when the project did not receive significant progress over the summer, the situation took a disastrous turn. Only then did the hardware mechanisms spin faster, the director of "Lenin in October" Mikhail Romm was given fullcarte blanche. The director, like Sergei Eisenstein, who created the mythical episode with the storming of the Winter Palace, which after that was repeatedly perceived as a chronicle, could not avoid scenes demonstrating the preparation of an armed uprising and the “last and decisive battle” of the revolutionary masses.
Best Screen Performance
Boris Shchukin was approved for the main role of the painting "Lenin in October", who managed to create an unforgettable screen image that appealed to the audience and strict censors. Talented, charmingly burry, energetic, attentive and agile, Lenin met the expectations of the Bolsheviks. True, there is a version according to which Lenin's swiftness is due to the peculiarities of filming the chronicle. In an accelerated projection, Ulyanov is really very energetic, even fussy and even a little eccentric. It was these properties that the brilliant performer reflected with his skill. Boris Shchukin's version has become a reference for the actor's incarnation of the role of the leader. He was imitated, although repeatedly appealed and challenged the realism.
In the first version of the film "Lenin in October" Stalin also appears, played by Semyon Goldshtab. His character is different from the title character, the honorary comrade-in-arms behaves more sedately, as befits a boss.
Canonical image
Despite the strict ideologization and propaganda of what was happening on the screen in strict accordance with the instructions of the party, the interpretation of the image of the Russian revolutionaryscriptwriter Alexei Kapler, stage director Mikhail Romm, and first of all, an outstanding performer of the Vakhtangov school Boris Shchukin, is not only active and laid-back, but also possesses a certain bit of adventurism, a predisposition to play, disguise and hoax, albeit for secret purposes. It is difficult to name a more interesting cinematic incarnation of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) than in the movie "Lenin in October".
Production sabotage
The filming process of the movie "Lenin in October" was accompanied by incessant sabotage. Enemies deliberately smashed expensive foreign optics. Once an unknown person cut the lighting cable, the creators had to cancel the entire filming shift. Someone regularly stole already footage, which was strictly forbidden to be taken out of the editing studio. On one of the final days, the pests sawed down a rack of lighting equipment, under which the director Mikhail Romm and the leading actor Boris Shchukin regularly rested. Fortunately, no one was hurt, only the lighter on duty escaped with scratches and minor bruises. As a result of the investigation of acts of sabotage, the perpetrators were not found.
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