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December 20th

December 20th

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 18, 1982

Runtime

4h 36m

Genres

History, Drama

User Score

46%

Original Title

20 декабря

Production Companies

Lenfilm, Gosteleradio USSR

Director

Grigori Nikulin

Description

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.