A Lesson in History

A Lesson in History
A Lesson in History
Directed by	Lev Arnshtam; Hristo Piskov
Written by	Lev Arnshtam; Hristo Piskov
Cinematography	Yu-Lan Chen; Aleksandr Shelenkov
Music by	Kara Karaev
Production; companies	Mosfilm; Boyana Film
Release dates	26 February 1957 (Soviet Union); 27 May 1957 (Bulgaria);
Running time	91 minutes
Countries	Soviet Union; Bulgaria
Languages	Russian; Bulgarian

A Lesson in History (Russian: Урок истории, Bulgarian: Урокът на историята) is a 1957 joint Soviet–Bulgarian historical drama film directed by Lev Arnshtam and Hristo Piskov about Georgi Dimitrov and the Leipzig Trial.

Plot

The year is 1933. Georgi Dimitrov (Stefan Savov) comes to Berlin to establish links with the local Bulgarian communists. The Nazi leaders are doing their best to break the resistance of the Communists. Hermann Göring (Yuri Averin) conceives a provocation: during the arson of the Reichstag, his associate must be caught with a ticket of a member of the Communist Party. The Reichstag is set on fire, the provocateur Marinus van der Lubbe (Georgi Kaloyanchev) and the deputy of the Reichstag Ernst Torgler are arrested. Mass repressions against Communists are commencing. Dimitrov also falls in the hands of the Nazi court. However, in the courtroom, workers, including Heinrich Lange (Gennadi Yudin), prove the falsehood of the accusation. The National Socialists are forced to free Dimitrov. The Soviet government grants him the right of political asylum.

Cast

Stefan Savov as Georgi Dimitrov
Tzvetana Arnaudova as Paraskeva Dimitrova
Ivan Tonev as Stefcho
Gennadi Yudin as Heinrich Lange
Borya Burlyaev as Vili Lange
Apollon Yachnitskiy as Hitler
Yuri Averin as Gyoring
Pyotr Berezov as Himler
Encho Tagarov as Gyobels
Nikolay Volkov as Heldorf

External links

A Lesson in History at IMDb

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