Taurus (2001)

5.8/10 104 min Drama

Overview

Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.

Cast

Leonid Mozgovoy

Lenin

Mariya Kuznetsova

Krupskaya

Lev Eliseev

doctor

Aleksandr Chaban

Fyodor Lavrov

Boris Voytsekhovskiy

Maxim Sergeev

Valentina Kasyanova

Pavel Kornakov

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