[1] Made as a Soviet-realist propaganda work by the GOSKINO at the Mosfilm studio, it portrays the activities of Lenin at the time of the October Revolution.

Lenin secretly arrives at the Petrograd train station and is escorted through the security cordon by his bodyguard, a worker named Vasily.

The narrative emphasizes the betrayals of Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, though these treacheries fail to derail the Bolsheviks' plans.

The film concludes with the declaration of the revolution's victory at the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, with Lenin proclaiming: "Comrades!

As soon as Alexei Kapler's scenario was approved by the highest authorities, Lenin in October was put into production on August 10, already late in the year.