1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the political struggles of the post-revolutionary years.
Acting
Claude Jade brings tragic warmth to revolutionary chaos
Cinematography
Dreamlike dissolves between 1871, 1911, and 1917
Direction
Yutkevich's final film, obsessed with time as political weapon
Director
Sergei Yutkevich
Yuriy Kayurov
Lenin
Claude Jade
Inessa Armand
Vladimir Antonik
Trofimow
Valentina Svetlova
Krupskaya
Pavel Kadochnikov
Paul Lafargue
Antonina Maksimova
Laura Lafargue
Boris Ivanov
Jacob Zhitomirsky
Albert Filozov
Anarchist
Vitaliy Shapovalov
Sailor
Anatoli Adoskin
Agitator
Yelena Koreneva
Singer
Galina Belyaeva
Girl in jeans
Sergey Fyodorov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Claude Jade was a major French star (Truffaut's muse) whose casting was pure Soviet prestige flex.
Made during Brezhnev stagnation, the film's wistful tone arguably mourns revolution itself more than any romance—Yutkevich's hidden elegy.
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