Lenin...The Train

Lenin...The Train
Created by	Michael Pearson (book)
Directed by	Damiano Damiani
Music by	Nicola Piovani
Country of origin	Italy West Germany France Austria Spain
Original language	English
No. of episodes	2
Production
Producer	Enrico Bergier
Editor	Enzo Meniconi
Running time	3h 18min
Production companies	Rai 2 Taurus Film Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) Televisión Española (TVE)
Original release
Release	30 November 1988 (1988-11-30)

Lenin... The Train is a 1988 English-language TV miniseries directed by Damiano Damiani.^[1] Produced by Rai 2 and Taurus Film in collaboration with Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) and Televisión Española (TVE), it premiered on 30 November on Rai 2.^[2] It follows Vladimir Lenin (Ben Kingsley) on his journey from Switzerland to Petrograd by sealed train through wartime Germany during the Russian Revolution of 1917.^[1]

Cast

• Ben Kingsley as Lenin
• Leslie Caron as Nadezhda "Nadya" Krupskaya
• Dominique Sanda as Inessa Armand
• Timothy West as Alexander Parvus (Helphand)
• Peter Whitman as Karl Radek
• Xabier Elorriaga as Fritz Platten
• Jason Connery as David Suljashvili
• Paolo Bonacelli as Grigory Zinoviev
• Wolfgang Gasser as Julius Martov
• Mattia Sbragia as Furstenberg
• Robin McCallum as Von Buhring
• Günther Maria Halmer as Von Planetz
• Dagmar Schwarz as Olga
• Verena Mayr as Clarissa
• Hans Kraemmer as Von Romberg
• Alan Goodson as Georgy Safarov

References

1. "Lenin: The Train (1988)". Beta Film.
2. "Lenin... The Train". British Board of Film Classification.

External links

• Lenin...The Train at IMDb