General Information

Original Title

Telets

Author/Creator

Sokurov, Aleksandr, director.

Language

Russian.

Published

Russia : Lenfilm, 2001.

Physical Description

VHS (94 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

The story of Lenin's final days, his battle against his own physical decay and the understanding that his ideals never were and never will be realized. The film depicts a giant who has outlived his time - isolated in a suburban cottage away from the world waiting out his death, ineffective and forgotten. Even those that are meant to take care of him treat him as an invalid or a fool. The film has many intriguing ideas about the nature of power and the reaction of an individual faced with his own mortality,

Subjects

Genre

Fiction films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

Taurus

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0444	Available	-	-