December 20th
1982, Russian. Directed by Grigori Nikulin.
Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.
- Runtime
- 4h 36m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 18 May 1982
- Original title
- 20 декабря
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Yulian Semyonov
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December 20th runs 276 minutes (4h 36m).
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December 20th isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 18 May 1982. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed December 20th?
December 20th (1982) was directed by Grigori Nikulin and stars Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Kozakov, Andrei Tolubeyev.