"A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution."
Mikhail Alekseyev
as Self (with Tsar Nicholas) (archive footage)
Alexei Brusilov
as Self (Consults with Another Officer) (archive footage)
Nikolai Chkheidze
as Self (Chairman, 1st Session, Petrograd Soviet) (archive footage)
Emperor Franz Josef
as Self (Reviews Troops) (archive footage)
Vera Figner
as Self (People's Will Party, in Open Car) (archive footage)
Grand Duchess Anastasia
as Self (archive footage)
Grand Duchess Marie
Grand Duchess Olga
Grand Duchess Tatiana
Aleksandr Guchkov
Iliodor
as Self (Monk, Rasputin's Rival) (archive footage) (as Illiodor)
Aleksandr Izvolsky
as Self (Ambassador to France, Gets in Carriage) (archive footage)
Joseph Joffre
as Self (with Millerand) (archive footage)
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany
Governor of Kaluga
Alexander Kerensky
as Self (Doffs Fur Hat, Shakes Hands of Soldiers) (archive footage)
King George V of the United Kingdom
as Self (in Ceremonial Carriage, Not Visible) (archive footage)
Alexander Kolchak
as Self (Aboard Ship) (archive footage)
P.V. Krupensky
Vladimir Lenin
V.A. Maklakov
Alexandre Millerand
as Self (French War Minister, with Joffre) (archive footage)
Paul Milyukov
Gospodin Nekrasov
Raymond Poincaré
as Self (Visits Russia Just Before War Begins) (archive footage)
Vladimir Purishkevich
Fyodor Rodichev
Mikhail Rodzyanko
Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov
Vasily Shulgin
as Self (archive footage) (as V.V. Shulgin)
Vladimir Sukhomlinov
as Self (in Plain Field Uniform Coat) (archive footage)
Aleksei Sergeevich Suvorin
as Self (Leader, Monarchist Press, Vremya) (archive footage)
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Tsarina Alexandra
Irakli Tseretelli
as Self (Leader, Mensheviks) (archive footage)
N.A. Vtorov
as Self (Owner, Vtorovsky Armaments Factory) (archive footage)
Nikolai Yudenich
as Self (Signs Papers) (archive footage)
Esfir Shub
Writer
Director
T. Kuvshinchikova
Assistant Director
Editor
