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Taurus

Not Rated Drama

Starring: Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova, Sergei Razhuk, Natalya Nikulenko, Lev Eliseev

Writer: Yuriy Arabov

Release Date:
February 24, 2001
Ratings:
5.8 / 10
Director:
Aleksandr Sokurov
Companies:
Gosfilmfond Russia

Overview

Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.