The Great Dawn

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

Konstantin Müfke

Vladimir Lenin

Mikheil Gelovani

Josef Stalin

Boris Poltavtsev

Sverdlov

Spartak Bagashvili

Giorgi Gudushauri

Tamara Makarova

Nurse Svetlana

Anna Smirnova

Svetlana's Mother

Vasiliy Matov

Ershov

Dmitri Ivanov

Panasiuk

Georgi Sagaradze

Tsereteli (as G. Sagaradze)

Mikhail Chikhladze

Col. Mikeladze

Crew

Giorgi Tsagareli

Writer

Mikheil Chiaureli

Director

Alexander Dighmelashvili

Director of Photography

Ivane Gokieli

Original Music Composer

Mikheil Chiaureli

Writer

Anton Polikevich

Camera Operator

Shalva Mamaladze

Production Design

Rostislav Lapinskiy

Sound Director

Vladimir Dolidze

Sound Director

Z. Vakhtangishvili

Makeup Artist