Release Date

25 Dec, 1937

Runtime

00:55: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Ardent Fighter for the Cause of the Working Class, for the Cause of Communism, Fearless LeninistBolshevik, Friend and Comrade-in-Arms of Stalin the Great

The film is about the life and work of Grigory Ordzhonikidze Konstantinoviche, an important personality in both the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The film includes speeches by his bereaved friends who attended his funeral. In 1937, after the unexpected death of Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Vertov received an urgent order from the government to produce a film about the life of Ordzhonikidze. He was ordered to work together with Yakov Bliohom and the director of the film "Battleship Potemkin" distributed by Goskino (Soviet State Committee for Cinematography).

Original Title

Серго Орджоникидзе

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Actors

Иосиф Сталин

Григорий Орджоникидзе

Vasiliy Kachalov

M. Lebedev

Crew

Yakov Bliokh

N. Adzhibegishvili

Klavdiya Kulagina

Михаил Ошурков

Ivan Belyakov

Dziga Vertov

Виктор Доброницкий

Elizaveta Svilova

Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach

Ivan Renkov

David Blok

Сергей Семёнов

Isaak Dunayevsky

Vasily Solovyov