December 20th

4h 36min

History

Drama

TV Movie

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.

Production Companies

Lenfilm

Gosteleradio USSR

Release date

18th May 1982

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Pусский