Lenin...The Train

Lenin... The Train is a 1988 English-language TV miniseries directed by Damiano Damiani. Produced by Rai 2 and Taurus Film in collaboration with Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) and Televisión Española (TVE), it premiered on 30 November on Rai 2. It follows Vladimir Lenin (Ben Kingsley) on his journey from Switzerland to Petrograd by sealed train through wartime Germany during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Cast Ben Kingsley as Lenin Leslie Caron as Nadezhda "Nadya" Krupskaya Dominique Sanda as Inessa Armand Timothy West as Alexander Parvus (Helphand) Peter Whitman as Karl Radek Xabier Elorriaga as Fritz Platten Jason Connery as David Suljashvili Paolo Bonacelli as Grigory Zinoviev Wolfgang Gasser as Julius Martov Mattia Sbragia as Furstenberg Robin McCallum as Von Buhring Günther Maria Halmer as Von Planetz Dagmar Schwarz as Olga Verena Mayr as Clarissa Hans Kraemmer as Von Romberg Alan Goodson as Georgy Safarov References External links