19 May 1991
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
This biographical drama, based on the late actress's autobiography, chronicles her attempts to rescue her drug addicted son while simultaneously trying to overcome her life-threatening cancer.
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books…
Top Billed Cast
Hervé Pierre Self - Narrator (voice)
Владимир Ленин Self - Politician (archive footage)
Czar Nicholas II of Russia Self - Politician (archive footage)
Pavel Milyukov Self - Politician (archive footage)
Nikolai Chkheidze Self - Politician (archive footage)
Nikolai Sukhanov Self - Politician (archive footage)
Mikhail Rodzianko Self - Politician (archive footage)
Alexander Kerensky Self - Politician (archive footage)
Nadezhda Krupskaya Self - Politician / Lenin's Wife (archive footage)
Lavr Kornilov Self - Army General (archive footage)
Leon Trotsky Self - Politician (archive footage)
Иосиф Сталин Self - Politician (archive footage)
Родион Нахапетов Vladimir Lenin (archive footage)
Василий Никандров Vladimir Lenin (archive footage)
Nikolai Popov Alexander Kerensky (archive footage)
Борис Щукин Vladimir Lenin (archive footage)
Aleksandr Kovalevsky Alexander Kerensky (archive footage)
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