Torn pages from Lenin's diary

Vasily Syroezhkin
2009-05-30

A revolutionary is a dead man on vacation
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116 min

In the Siberian village of Shushenskoye, not a modern thinker, rocker, poet, rebel lives in internal emigration. The students simply call him "Teacher", his wife calls him Volodenka, someone Trotsky shouts at him in the heat of the moment: "You're a fucking psycho! You damn fool!" The further into the winter forest — the more firewood: dreams come true, reality finally gives way to fantasy. As a result of the quail hunt, the victims alternatively turn out to be either Stalin, Clara Zetkin, or Trotsky. However, Trotsky in any case was the least lucky of all…