February 24, 2001
Release Date

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Taurus (2001)

Name: Taurus
Genre: Drama
Released: 2001-02-24

1h 44m

Running Time

February 24, 2001
Release Date

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Plot.

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.

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Release Date
February 24, 2001

Original Name
Телец

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 44m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-04-16

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Taurus (Russian: Телец, romanized: Telets) is a 2001 Russian biographical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov, portraying Vladimir Lenin. It is the second film in a trilogy by director Aleksandr Sokurov that began with Moloch about Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler and continued with The Sun about Japanese emperor Hirohito. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.