December 20th

20 декабря

Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.

Music

Viktor Lebedev

Director

Grigori Nikulin

Screenplay

Yulian Semyonov

Novela

Yulian Semyonov

Status

Released

Release date

18/05/1982

Original language

Russian