December 20th
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4hrs
36mins
Directed by
Grigori Nikulin,
Starring
Kirill Lavrov,
Mikhail Kozakov,
Andrei Tolubeyev,
Emmanuil Vitorgan
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Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.
