Almost 10 years after his Lenin in October and Lenin in l9l8, Mikhail Romm is back to the life of Vladimir Ilic Lenin: this time is not a fiction film, but a major production documentary produced by researching in any Soviet archive and gathering all existing, images of Lenin. The result is an incredibly fluent and solemn documentary which, at the same time, responds perfectly to the rhetoric of the stalinist regime. By avoiding to show the leader and using many art pieces, paintings, drawings, sculptures, Romm creates a fascinating and highly interesting “catalog” of the stalinist iconography. As interesfing, from an historical point of view, is the correction of the Revolutionary history and, on a wider sense, of the life and work of Lenin, always seen under the protective shadow of Stalin.