Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
October 16, 1918: newsreel of VLADIMIR LENIN on hospital grounds shortly after an assassination attempt. Wears suit and Gatsby, looks slightly shaken yet still vim. Lenin talking to friend VADIMIR BONCHGOEVYCH.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
January 14, 1918, Petrograd: 1st attempt on Lenin's life. State soldiers waving swords in air while riding military trucks through streets. Gas street lamps. Details of car Lenin and compatriots were riding in on near-fateful evening. Still of Swiss revolutionary FRITZ PLATTEN, followed by grainy motion footage of Platten talking and smoking aboard a train. Stills of Lenin and Platten.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Swiss scenics, in and around Geneva (mountains, streams, rural homes, city life, harbors and so on). In 1895 Lenin arrived in Geneva, shot of apartment building, #6. Stills of young Lenin.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Various shots of Les Diableretes , a small Swiss town where Lenin and Marxist associates held their talks, away from the prying eyes of the Czar's secret police (cottages, mountains, Grand Hotel, Le Refuge). CU's of Lenin's Russian Marxist newspaper rolling off old printing press; ECU of headlines and articles. More establishing shots of urban Geneva, circa 1970's.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
First Russian printing of Lenin's 1904 book "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back"; cut to tilting CU of translated copies in a store window. Est shot of Landolt Cafe, where Lenin once frequented, followed by establishing shots of other Lenin haunts. Panning CU, stills of 22 members of early Bolshevik party, circa 1904.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Shots of Rue Carouge. Still of a beaming Lenin. CU of independent newspaper rolling off printing press, old fashioned printing press in operation. 1905 Russian Revolution.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Headlines and articles written and/or edited by Lenin himself. CU of Lenin's book, "Two Tactics of Social Democrats in the Democratic Revolution" Russian printing. Old fashioned printing press in operation. Shots of apartments where Lenin once resided, including zooming CU of plaque in his honor.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Stills of 1905 Russian Revolution being defeated; newsreel footage of state soldiers leading revolutionists into a prison, CU's of men posing for camera.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Churning waters near Geneva as birds mill about. More establishing shots of former Lenin residencies as well as ECU's of apartment ledgers.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Exterior of Library. CU of library plaque "Societe de Lecture". Pan of library shelves. Ornate pendulum swinging. Pan of books on the 1871 French Commune which Lenin read. Interior shot of the empty library. Lenin's "Materialism and Imperial Criticism" on a shelf (in various translations).
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Large crowd of upper class feeding pigeons on a Moscow street. Man climbing ladder to water an elevated planter in downtown square. Mug shot of W. KARPINSKY. Cut to World War I (WWI) montage: mobilization of troops; bomb exploding (nice shot, lots of loose soil being hurtled into the air); howitzer being loaded by two soldiers; Russian soldiers marching through streets; men aboard train departing station, sticking their heads and hats out the window; trench warfare as bombs and men battle for space; subjective shots of bombs being released from biplanes; lone soldier racing across battlefield. bombs exploding near him; ground explosions; American ship sinking quickly, the Stars and Stripes (American flag) waving gallantly; aerial shot of a biplane hit and falling (spiraling) to the ground; battleship capsizing, crew scurrying to get off.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Lenin returns to Switzerland: establishing shots of former haunts in Bern, printing shops and libraries. POV driving into Zimmerwald. Shots of rural houses in Zimmerwald.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Establishing shots the mountain village of Kiental. Establishing shots of scenic Zurich (streets, stores, homes, churches.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Establishing shots of Zurich and Lenin's residence. Interior shots of Zurich libraries. Handwritten request slips from Lenin.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Stills of Zurich labor movement.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
Exteriors of Volkshaus concert hall.
Lenin: Seven Years In Switzerland
February, 1917 Russian Revolution: communications operators (military men) working lines; printing machine; people marching in Moscow. Lenin returns home to Russia: train speeding; subjective shots of countryside passing by; stills of young and 1917 Lenin.