A Lesson in History

A Lesson in History
Directed by Lev Arnshtam
Hristo Piskov
Written by Lev Arnshtam
Hristo Piskov
Music by Kara Karaev
Cinematography Yu-Lan Chen
Aleksandr Shelenkov
Production
company
Release date
  • 26 February 1957 (1957-02-26) (Soviet Union)
  • 27 May 1957 (1957-05-27) (Bulgaria)
Running time
 91 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Bulgaria
Language Russian
Bulgarian

A Lesson in History (Russian: Урок истории, Bulgarian: Урокът на историята) is a 1957 joint Soviet–Bulgarian biographical 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

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