Lenin in Poland

Lenin in Poland (Ленин в Польше) is a 1966 Soviet historical drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich. Yutkevich won the award for Best Director at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.

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.

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