Vladimir Ilyich (Ulyanov) Lenin was born 150 years ago, on April 22. Many years after he became the leader of the October Revolution in Russia, the founder of the first Communist Party and the founder of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union, he became a welcome figure in popular culture in many countries around the world.
"Of all the arts, film is the most important art for us communists to keep the people under control," said Lenin, as is well known, and initiated the traveling movie theater Cinema train - trains with propaganda films for the masses, which went all over the Soviet Union to educate and indoctrinate the population. Thus, Lenin became the patron of future film production in the USSR, which launched him to the world as a film hero: in Eisenstein's film October (Ten days that shook the world) filmed in 1927, Lenin is the main character. Vasily Nikandrov Shukin played him so impressively that in historical documentaries we see footage from that film more often than authentic footage of Lenin.
Monty Python
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The list of films shot around the world in which Vladimir Ilyich Lenin appears is impressive. We choose and list at random.
As a young man, Volodya Ulyanov looked remarkably like Leonardo DiCaprio. And yet, in 2016, Russians rebelled against the idea Lenfilm, about the oldest production company in the country, according to which the sweet boy from Titanic played the father of their immortal revolution, and the project was suspended. In the mid-nineties, the first James Bond 007 film with Pierce Brosnan, GoldenEye, was boycotted in India because of a scene in the opening credits that takes place in the eleventh and twelfth minutes in which sexy silhouettes of girls use hammers to demolish statues of Lenin and other symbols of communism. And John Cleese once appeared as Lenin in a rock and roll quiz sketch Monty Python, in which the mute and stiff-necked Volodya Ulyanov can't name Jerry Lee Lewis' greatest hit, while Mao Tse Tung does.
Oscar winner Ben Kingsley was convincing in the two-part film Lenin(S)Train 1988, which describes his return in an armored train with his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya and 30 Bolsheviks from Geneva in 1917 via Germany and Sweden. (Trivial: although only 164 cm tall and without any desire to follow trends and fashion, Lenin gathered women around him with ease. Apolonia Jakobova aka Koboฤka and Ines Almano were his greatest loves. And yet when due to the constant undermining of the state system in 1895 Banished to Siberia for three years, Nadezhda Krupskaya voluntarily went into exile with him to keep him company married, stressing that she still played chess better than the other candidates and understood Marx).
A scene from a movie Stalin
Patrick Stewart, Jean-Luc Picard of Enterprise fame, played Lenin in the BBC series Fall of Eagles. "Now we know for a fact that Picard was a travelin communist at the time", many fans joked Star Trek on that occasion. Maximilian Schell played Lenin at the end of his life in the film Stalin, and the consigliere from Kuma Robert Divall played his unscrupulously cruel heir Josif Vissarionovich. Roger Solman was Lenin in the movie Reds, where he is interviewed by Warren Beatty as John Reed. The most unbelievable cinematic interpretation was given to us by Michael Bryant in the Oscar-winning film for costumes Nikolai and Alexandra in 1971. Klaus Maria Brandauer was also an interesting choice in the 2000 film Love Nadezhda Krov who dealt with Volodya's romances behind Nadezhda's back. In the HBO adaptation Rasputin with Alan Rickman, an actor was chosen as the leader of the executors of the Romanov family, whose physiognomy, cap and the shadow falling on his chin resemble VI Lenin, so it seems as if he was their executioner.
In many films, Lenin is present in the form of his portrait. For example, in the movie Frida Rockefeller's son (Edward Norton) orders the demolition of the wall on which Diego Rivera painted Lenin's portrait with the reply: "that artistic vision is yours and you will be duly paid for it, but the wall is mine and will be demolished because of it"; and then Trotsky, played by Geoffrey Rush, after making love to Frida Kahlo (Selma Hayek) enthusiastically starts quoting Lenin from his book State and revolution which he then presents to her. In Blake Edwards' spy thriller Tamarind Seed, Oskar Homolka rages over Omar Sharif's defection to the British under a giant smiling portrait of Lenin. Under his picture, the last moral dilemma of Svetozar Cvetkoviฤ in the film unfolds Berlin Coat. After moving proletarians into his brother's apartment against his will, Sir Alex Guinness died Doctor Zhivago he religiously observes a double poster of Lenin with a mercifully outstretched hand above him.
In the comic by A. Mauroviฤ
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After a series of apologetic films (Lenin in Paris, Lenin in Poland) Duลกan Makavejev was the first from the socialist bloc to attack him with film coding when he was in the film Mysteries of the Organism in the scene in which the patient is given electric shocks, he edited the sentence: "We have achieved everything that Lenin bequeathed to us." Lenin as a sex symbol represents the film Charuga in which his character and work excite Svilena, played by Ena Begoviฤ, so much that the titular hero (Ivo Gregureviฤ) has to adapt his suit and hairstyle to Lenina before entering into a passionate intimate relationship with her. In the film by Milutin Petroviฤ South Southeast Puriลกa ฤorฤeviฤ as George Smiley of the domestic DB mentions Dziga Vertov's film from 1934, Three poems about Lenin, as a possible key to the entire tangle. And Ilija ฤvoroviฤ d Balkan spy he thinks the key proof that his lodger is a foreign secret agent is that: "He hasn't written to his birth aunt for twenty years just because he lives on Lenin Boulevard!" No man will write the name Lenin on an envelope!" In the film version of Kovaฤeviฤ's play A professional Lenin's name is cited as the only foreigner, along with Marx and Engels, that the security forces know does not denote foreign agents, unlike Jean-Paul Sartre and other thinkers.
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We have it on LP Shop of secrets remembered Bajaga and the Instructors in one of their biggest hits Russian train with the line: "A letter written by me, a stamp with the image of Lenin." In a Russian film passionate we see Ulyanov discussing Beethoven's composition with Maxim Gorky. Gilbert Bacau sings about Lenin's mausoleum in his most famous chanson Natali. Although Western pop music abounds with references to Russia and the Soviets - for example the Beatles in Back In USSR, Bonnie M mentions him in Rasputin, the Rolling Stones implicitly associate Lenin with the devil in Sympathy For The Devil, while the Stranglers, Styx, Beach Boys and Menick Street Marketers mention him by name. A claim circulating the internet is that Bowie mentions Lenin in the song Life on Mars and is not true, that verse reads: "Lennon is on sale again", not Lenin.
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Andy Warhol
In the animated video Cher I got you babe, Beavis and Bathed singing with her for a moment are drawn as Lenin and Stalin. And Milo Manara drew him among alluring girls in a comic album Memory. The French also published a deluxe color comic book about Lenin by Danny Rodier under the publishing house Glรฉnat. However, they were all overtaken by our Andrija Mauroviฤ, who published a SF comic back in 1935 in "Novosti" Mistress from Mars in which the main character Gusyev, who is in all respects the image and likeness of Lenin, frees the proletarians on Mars from the interstellar shackles of capitalism by exclaiming to them: "Hello fellow Martians." Long live the interplanetary proletariat of the space worlds!โ Except for Apinyanesi's Lenin for beginners, Volodya Ulyanov also appeared in the episode Captain America Marvel, in which he visits Lenin's mausoleum. Lenin is even resurrected as a zombie mummy in the episode Tide cult cartoon satirical series The Simpsons from 1998 repeating "Must crush capitalism. "
A. Kosolapov
Let's also mention that Andy Warhol has a pop-art series with V. Ilyich's character, that in the Museum of Ideology there is a sculpture of Lenin and Jesus holding Mickey Mouse's hand between them, and that Alexander Kosolapov created an advertisement for Coca-Cola in 1980 with with Lenin's profile on a red background with a logo below which reads "Real Thing Lenin". However, the Ukrainians went the furthest in their pop revolution, who in the 21st century replaced the monument to Lenin in Odessa with a monument to Darth Vader, the villain from Star Wars.
That's what can happen in 150 years to a personality cult.
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