Telets . Taurus
The story of Lenin's final days, his battle against his own physical decay and the understanding that his ideals never were and never will be realized. The film depicts a giant who has outlived his time - isolated in a suburban cottage away from the world waiting out his death, ineffective and...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Russian |
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Lenfilm
2001
Russia |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:cd9e3899-06be-4b71-af3b-9b845b1c944a |
| Summary: | The story of Lenin's final days, his battle against his own physical decay and the understanding that his ideals never were and never will be realized. The film depicts a giant who has outlived his time - isolated in a suburban cottage away from the world waiting out his death, ineffective and forgotten. Even those that are meant to take care of him treat him as an invalid or a fool. The film has many intriguing ideas about the nature of power and the reaction of an individual faced with his own mortality, |
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| Published: | 2001 |