Lenin in Poland explained

Lenin in Poland (Ленин в Польше)
Director:	Sergei Yutkevich Jan Rutkiewicz
Starring:	Maksim Shtraukh
Cinematography:	Jan Laskowski
Runtime:	98 minutes
Country:	Soviet Union
Language:	Russian

Lenin in Poland (Russian: Ленин в Польше|Lenin v Polshe) is a 1966 Soviet historical drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich. Yutkevich won the award for Best Director at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Actual events

In the summers of 1913 and 1914 Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya rented a holiday home in Biały Dunajec and often stayed in a nearby Poronin inn. The area formed part of Austria-Hungary at that time (as a result of the Partitions of Poland), and when World War I broke out in mid-1914 the Austrian authorities arrested Lenin on suspicion of spying for Russia (August 1914), but deported him to Switzerland soon after (September 1914), after Lenin's defenders convinced the authorities that Lenin was actually an enemy of the Russian government.^{[2] [3]}

Cast

• Maksim Shtraukh - Vladimir Lenin
• Anna Lisyanskaya - Nadezhda Krupskaya
• Antonina Pavlycheva - Krupskaya's mother
• Ilona Kusmierska - Ulka
• Edmund Fetting - Yakov Ganetsky
• Krzysztof Kalczynski - Andrzej
• Tadeusz Fijewski - Prison secretary
• Gustaw Lutkiewicz - Investigator
• Kazimierz Rudzki - Priest
• Zbigniew Skowronski - Wachtmeister Matyszczuk
• Jarema Stepowski - Photographer

Notes and References

1. Web site: Festival de Cannes: Lenin in Poland . 8 March 2009. festival-cannes.com.
2. Book: Read, Christopher. Christopher Read . Lenin: A Revolutionary Life. Routledge . 11 January 2013 . 9781134624713. London . 105 . Routledge Historical Biographies . On 7 August their holiday home in Poronin, near Zakopane, was raided by Austrian police. [...] The following day, Lenin was arrested. Through the good offices of the Austrian Social-Democratic leader, Victor Adler, he was released and Lenin and Krupskaya were able to leave, via Vienna, for neutral Switzerland where they arrived on 5 September..
3. Book: Le Blanc . Paul . Paul Le Blanc (historian) . 17 June 2014 . Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine . Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series . Chicago . Haymarket Books . 30 . 9781608463664 . 27 August 2023 . Lenin had moved to Krakow, in Austrian Poland, in 1912. After the outbreak of war in 1914 he was deported to Switzerland..