December 20th (movie)
20 декабря- User score: 4.6
- Production country: Soviet Union
- Producer: Grigori Nikulin
- Production companies: Lenfilm, Gosteleradio USSR
- Genre: History, Drama
- Release date: 5/18/1982
- Run time: 276 min.
Movie description
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.
