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The Lenin Factor (2019)

Having dedicated his life to the preparation of the revolution in the Russian Empire, Vladimir Lenin, living in exile in Switzerland, desperately seeks a way back to Russia to take control. Options are few when Lenin receives an offer from Alexander Parvus, the most infamous of political opportunists, who has made a deal with Germany to sponsor the revolution under Lenin’s command and smuggle Lenin and his comrades into Russia. Aware that making a deal with 2 devils could cost him everything, Lenin knows he must outsmart and outmaneuver Parvus and the Germans at any cost...

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Top billed cast

Evgeny MironovVladimir Ulyanov
Fyodor BondarchukAlexandr Parvus
Darya EkamasovaNadezhda Krupskaya
Maksim MatveevAlexei Mezentsev
Aleksandr Baluevprince Turkestanov
Viktoriya IsakovaInessa Armand
Paulina AndreevaSofia Rudneva
Artem KurganskyGrigoriy Sokolnikov
Svetlana Belskaya
Evdokiya Lavrukhina

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