All My Lenins
| All My Lenins Estonian: Minu Leninid |
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| Directed by | Hardi Volmer |
| Produced by | Mati Sepping |
| Written by | Toomas Kall |
| Music by | Thomas DeRenzo |
| Edited by | Marju Juhkum |
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2 October 1997 |
| Country | Estonia |
| Language | Estonian, Russian, German, English |
All My Lenins (Estonian: Minu Leninid, Russian: Все мои Ленины), 1997, is a historical comedy film by Hardi Volmer. The topics are Russian bolsheviks' coup d'etat plans, World War I and Russian Revolution (1917).
In 1908, the young Estonian politician Aleksander Kesküla (Üllar Saaremäe) has escaped from Estonia, then part of the czarist Russian empire, to Switzerland. Kesküla is strongly concerned about the national oppression in the Russian empire. It is also the point of view of the famous Russian exile and bolshevik, Vladimir Lenin. (This role was played by Viktor Sukhorukov). Lenin believes czarist Russia to be "the prison of nations". Kesküla takes his last exams at the University of Bern. When World War I bursts into flame, Lenin views the Russian and German bourgeoisies to both have caused the war and so he begins to agitate "to end war even if Russia will be defeated."
Kesküla sees his great historical chance and intends to use Lenin's leftist radicals in forwarding the revolution of the Russian empire. He elaborates mania grandiosa type plans in order to exterminate Russia forever and build upon the ruins of the great empire Gross-Estland (Great Estonia). The empire would incorporate all former Fenno-Ugric territories, including Saint Petersburg. At first, he acts between Lenin and the German government to use German money to ignite revolutionary flames in Russia. Kesküla and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs make a deal to support Lenin financially: to pay for the brochures, leaflets and books of the Bolshevik Party. Lenin accepts German help but cannot really imagine in which he implicates himself.
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