Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Leonid MozgovoyLenin | Lenin |
 Mariya KuznetsovaKrupskaya | Krupskaya |
| SSergei RazhukStalin | Stalin |
| NNatalya Nikulenkosister | sister |
 Lev Eliseevdoctor | doctor |
| NNikolay UstinovNot listed | Not listed |
 Aleksandr ChabanNot listed | Not listed |
 Fyodor LavrovNot listed | Not listed |
 Boris VoytsekhovskiyNot listed | Not listed |
 Maxim SergeevNot listed | Not listed |
 Valentina KasyanovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Pavel KornakovNot listed | Not listed |