Workers of the world, make it so! (All the Lenin scenes from the 1974 BBC series "Fall of Eagles".)
Back in 1974 a little-known actor named Patrick Stewart portrayed Vladimir Lenin. In this performance, he depicted the charisma, intelligence and wisdom that would later characterize his most famous roles. Stewart isn't the only familiar face to make an appearance, though: A young John Rhys-Davies (LotR's Gimli, Indiana Jones' Sallah) plays a charismatic Zinoviev. And Mary Wimbush deserves an honorable mention as the scene-stealing Menshevik, Zasulich.The BBC surely knew they had a winner when they saw Stewart audition, but they could not have possibly known what a mistake they had made by casting a future icon of liberal media, the face of exploration of outer space and the inner human spirit, as the great Bolshevik. Although BBC made some appeasing ahistorical revisions to the narrative, I found that his scenes could today serve a useful propaganda function by humanizing the Russian revolutionaries to an English audience. For it is impossible to watch Stewart's Lenin and not like the man. Hence I edited Lenin's scenes all together into one short film. So whether you're a fan of PatStew or Lenin, enjoy.
0:00 The Last Tsar
6:22 Absolute Beginners
55:04 The Secret War
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