The Man with the Gun

Music byDmitri ShostakovichCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

The Man with the Gun (Russian: Человек с ружьём, romanized: Chelovek s ruzhyom, lit. 'Person with a rifle') is a 1938 Soviet history drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich.^[1][2]

The film takes place during the October Revolution, when the army is approaching the army of General Krasnov. Ivan Shadrin, a peasant who became a soldier, goes to Petrograd in order to convey a letter to Vladimir Lenin with questions that concern his comrades.

• Maksim Shtraukh as Vladimir Lenin
• Mikheil Gelovani as Joseph Stalin (removed from cut version)^[when?]
• Boris Tenin^[3][4] as Ivan Shadrin
• Vladimir Lukin as Nikolai Chibisov
• Zoya Fyodorova as Katya
• Faina Ranevskaya as mansion owner, séance psychic (uncredited)
• Boris Chirkov as Yevtushenko
• Nikolay Cherkasov as general
• Nikolai Sosnin as Zakhar Zakharovich Sibirtsev, millionaire
• Serafima Birman as Varvara Ivanovna, his wife
• Mark Bernes as Kostya Zhigilyov
• Stepan Kayukov as Andrei Dymov, sailor
• Pavel Sukhanov as Matushkin, captive
• Konstantin Sorokin as honor guard
• Nikolai Kryuchkov as Sidorov
• Pavel Kadochnikov as soldier with seeds
• Mikhail Yanshin as officer, séance guest
• Yuri Tolubeyev as revolutionary sailor
• Pyotr Aleynikov as soldier
• Vladimir Volchik as soldier
• Yelizaveta Uvarova as freeloader
• Vasili Vanin as general's batman^[5]

• The Man with the Gun on YouTube
• The Man with the Gun at IMDb