Lenin's brother tried to kill a tsar. Spoiler: it didn't go well.
A film about Alexander Ulyanov (1866-1887), the organizer and leader of the “Terrorist Faction” of the Narodnaya Volya party, the older brother of Vladimir Lenin, participant in the preparation of the assassination attempt (03/01/1887) on Alexander III. Alexander Ulyanov was executed by hanging in the Shlisselburg fortress.
Production
Lavish tsarist-era sets built for maximum ideological contrast.
Acting
Ganshin's doomed stoicism as the pre-revolutionary martyr.
Director
Yevgeni Andrikanis
Elizaveta Solodova
Mariya Aleksandrovna Ulyanova
Tatyana Konyukhova
Anna Ulyanova
Vladimir Chestnokov
Dmitriy Mendeleyev
Svetlana Shvayko
Tanya
Sergei Kurilov
Prokuror
Konstantin Khudyakov
Pakhomiy Andreykovich
Boris Goldayev
Vasiliy Osipanov
Viktor Rechman
Mikhail Kancher
Valentin Grachyov
Mikhail Novoruskiy
Yevgeni Teterin
Dal, senator
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Ulyanov was hanged at 21; Lenin was 16 at the time and reportedly said 'No, we shall not take that road'—though historians debate if he ever actually said this.
Released during the Khrushchev Thaw, this was part of a wave of 'humanizing' pre-Bolshevik revolutionaries while still serving state ideology. The Mendeleev cameo? Pure Soviet prestige signaling.
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