All My Lenins

All My Lenins (Estonian: Minu Leninid, Russian: Все мои Ленины), 1997 is Hardi Volmer´s historical comedy. The topics are Russian bolshevik´s coup d´etat plans, World War I and Russian Revolution (1917). In 1908, the young Estonian politician Aleksander Kesküla (Üllar Saaremäe) has escaped from Estonia, then part of the czarist Russian empire, to Switzerland. Kesküla is hardly concerned about the national oppression in the Russian empire. It is also the point of view of the famous Russian exile and bolshevik, Vladimir Lenin. (This role was played by Viktor Sukhorukov). Lenin believes czarist Russia to be "the prison of nations". Kesküla takes his last exams at the University of Bern. When World War I bursts into flame, Lenin views the...