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On the Way to Lenin

5.719701h 47mMovieDramaHistory

A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.

DirectorGünter Reisch
WritersAlfred Kurella·Helmut Baierl

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Cast · Directed by Günter Reisch

GR
Gottfried Richter
Viktor Kleist
MUMikhail Ulyanov
Mikhail Ulyanov
Lenin
HGHelga Göring
Helga Göring
Mrs. Kleist
WGWinfried Glatzeder
Winfried Glatzeder
Rolf Rosenow
IKInge Keller
Inge Keller
Mrs. von Roettger
DMDieter Mann
Dieter Mann
Erich
CACarmen-Maja Antoni
Carmen-Maja Antoni
KMKurt Müller-Reitzner
Kurt Müller-Reitzner
Major
WP
Wolfgang Pampel
RR
Rolf Ripperger
LKLev Kruglyy
Lev Kruglyy
George
ZBZhanna Bolotova
Zhanna Bolotova
Lena

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