After the brutal massacre of a peaceful demonstration of the working people on their way to the Tsar, Lenin and other Party members in exile call for an armed uprising of the workers. At Presnya build barricades. The people are arming themselves. But the heroic armed uprising of the workers of Presnya is brutally suppressed by the tsarist troops. However, the struggle of the workers under the leadership of Lenin continued.
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Nikolai Plotnikov
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Maria Pastukhova
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Pavel Kadochnikov
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Vladimir Solovyov
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Pavel Vinnik
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Vladimir Kolchin
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Efim Dzigan Director · Aleksandr Shtein Writer Nikolai Kryukov Composer
First release December 3, 1956 · Produced in Russia · Original title Пролог
Production
Mosfilm
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Russia
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Original title
Пролог
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 3, 1956
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No release date listed for United States.
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