The Great Dawn (1938)
1h 13m
Running Time
November 6, 1938Release Date
Plot.
In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.
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Cast & Crew.
Tamara Makarova
Nurse Svetlana
Konstantin Myuffke
V.I. Lenin
Dmitri Ivanov
Panasiuk
Mikhail Gelovani
Josef Stalin
Vasiliy Matov
Ershov
Spartak Bagashvili
Giorgi Gudushauri
Tchiaoureli
Director
Mikheil Chiaureli
Director
Giorgi Tsagareli
Writer
Giorgi Shavgilidze
Pavel Gudushauri
L. Totadze
Producer
Anna Smirnova
Svetlana's Mother
Nutsa Chkheidze
Mother Gudushauri (bit)
Ivane Gokieli
Composer
Aleksandre Digmelovi
Cinematographer
Aleqsandre Digmelovi
Cinematographer
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 6, 1938
Original Nameდიადი განთიადი
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 13m
Wiki.
The Great Dawn (Georgian: დიადი განთიადი, trans. Diadi Gant’iadi; Russian: Великое зарево, trans. Velikoe Zarevo. English-language title: They Wanted Peace.) is a 1938 Soviet Georgian film directed by Mikheil Chiaureli. It is considered a representation of Joseph Stalin's cult of personality.