The Great Dawn

The story

In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.

Cast & crew

Konstantin Müfke

Konstantin MüfkeVladimir Lenin

Mikheil GelovaniJosef Stalin

Boris Poltavtsev

Boris PoltavtsevSverdlov

Spartak BagashviliGiorgi Gudushauri

Tamara MakarovaNurse Svetlana

Anna Smirnova

Anna SmirnovaSvetlana's Mother

Vasiliy MatovErshov

Dmitri IvanovPanasiuk

Georgi SagaradzeTsereteli (as G. Sagaradze)

Mikhail Chikhladze

Mikhail ChikhladzeCol. Mikeladze

Ivane PerestianiGeneral

Aleqsandre JorjolianiMedical officer