The History of the Civil War

The lost film of the legendary film director

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.

1921

Documentary·History

1h 34min

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Top Billed Cast

Leon Trotsky
Self - Soviet Politician
Nicolai Kazadanov
Self - Soviet Officer
Konstantin Mekhonoshin
Self - Soviet Officer
Innocenti Kozhevnikov
Self - Soviet Officer
Fyodor Raskolnikov
Self - Soviet Officer
Filipp Mironov
Self - Soviet Officer
Ian Poluian
Self - Soviet Politician
Konstantin Bulatkin
Self - Soviet Officer
Ivar Smilga
Self - Soviet Officer
Nestor Makhno
Self - Black Army Commander
Sergei Zakharov
Self - Soviet Officer
Vasily Chapayev
Self - Soviet Officer
Grigory Zinoviev
Self - Soviet Politician
Alexander Kolchak
Self - White Army Commander
Sergei Ordzhonikidze
Self - Soviet Officer
Sergei Kirov
Self - Soviet Officer
Kliment Voroshilov
Self - Soviet Officer
Семён Будённый
Self - Soviet Officer
Mikhail Kalinin
Self - Soviet Officer
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Self - Soviet Officer

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