The Great Dawn
1938, Georgian. Directed by Mikheil Chiaureli.
In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.
- Runtime
- 1h 13m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Georgian
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Mikheil ChiaureliDirector
- Konstantin MüfkeVladimir Lenin
- Mikheil GelovaniJosef Stalin
- Boris PoltavtsevSverdlov
- Spartak BagashviliGiorgi Gudushauri
- Tamara MakarovaNurse Svetlana
- Anna SmirnovaSvetlana's Mother
- Vasiliy MatovErshov
- Dmitri IvanovPanasiuk
- Georgi SagaradzeTsereteli (as G. Sagaradze)
- Mikhail ChikhladzeCol. Mikeladze
- Ivane PerestianiGeneral
- Aleqsandre JorjolianiMedical officer
Details
- Released
- 6 November 1938
- Original title
- დიადი განთიადი
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Giorgi Tsagareli, Mikheil Chiaureli
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The Great Dawn isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 6 November 1938. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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The Great Dawn (1938) was directed by Mikheil Chiaureli and stars Konstantin Müfke, Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Poltavtsev.