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Release Date: May 18, 1982
Genre: History, Drama, TV Movie
Duration: 4h 36m
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Director: Grigori Nikulin
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Kozakov, Andrei Tolubeyev, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Anatoliy Rudakov
Storyline
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.