December 20th

History, Drama, TV Movie

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Grigori Nikulin

Status Released

Release Date 1982-05-18

Storyline

Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.