Maksim Shtraukh

Maksim Maksimovich Shtraukh (Макси́м Макси́мович Штра́ух; 1900–1974) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. He was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1965, Lenin Prize and Stalin Prize between 1950 and 1951.

He is known for playing Vladimir Lenin on stage and in film. He had a privilege to get a discount for V. I. Lenin bust at any USSR shop.

Selected filmography

 * 1923 – Glumov's Diary
 * 1924 – Strike
 * 1929 – The General Line
 * 1929 – The Ghost That Never Returns
 * 1930 – The Civil Servant
 * 1933 – The Deserter
 * 1933 – The Conveyor of Death
 * 1934 – The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe
 * 1936 – A Severe Young Man
 * 1938 – Doctor Aybolit
 * 1938 – The Man with the Gun
 * 1938 – The Vyborg Side
 * 1940 – Yakov Sverdlov
 * 1942 – His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
 * 1943 – Two Soldiers
 * 1943 – The Young Fritz
 * 1946 – The Vow
 * 1947 – Light over Russia
 * 1948 – The Court of Honor
 * 1949 – The Battle of Stalingrad
 * 1949 – The Fall of Berlin
 * 1950 – Conspiracy of the Doomed
 * 1956 – Murder on Dante Street
 * 1957 – Stories About Lenin
 * 1957 – Leningrad Symphony
 * 1965 – Lenin in Poland