December 20th

Movie · 4h 36m

Starring Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Kozakov, Andrei Tolubeyev, Emmanuil Vitorgan

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.