Lenin...The Train
Appearance
Lenin...The Train | |
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Created by | Michael Pearson (book) |
Directed by | Damiano Damiani |
Music by | Nicola Piovani |
Country of origin | Italy West Germany France Austria Spain |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 2 |
Production | |
Producer | Enrico Bergier |
Editor | Enzo Meniconi |
Running time | 3h 18min |
Production companies | Rai 2 Taurus Film Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) Televisión Española (TVE) |
Original release | |
Release | 30 November 1988 |
Lenin... The Train is a 1988 English-language TV miniseries directed by Damiano Damiani.[1] Produced by Rai 2 and Taurus Film in collaboration with Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) and Televisión Española (TVE), it premiered on 30 November on Rai 2.[2] It follows Vladimir Lenin (Ben Kingsley) on his journey from Switzerland to Petrograd by sealed train through wartime Germany during the Russian Revolution of 1917.[1]
Cast
- Ben Kingsley as Lenin
- Leslie Caron as Nadezhda "Nadya" Krupskaya
- Dominique Sanda as Inessa Armand
- Timothy West as Alexander Parvus (Helphand)
- Peter Whitman as Karl Radek
- Xabier Elorriaga as Fritz Platten
- Jason Connery as David Suljashvili
- Paolo Bonacelli as Grigory Zinoviev
- Wolfgang Gasser as Julius Martov
- Mattia Sbragia as Furstenberg
- Robin McCallum as Von Buhring
- Günther Maria Halmer as Von Planetz
- Dagmar Schwarz as Olga
- Verena Mayr as Clarissa
- Hans Kraemmer as Von Romberg
- Alan Goodson as Georgy Safarov
References
- ^ a b "Lenin: The Train (1988)". Beta Film.
- ^ "Lenin... The Train". British Board of Film Classification.