Maxim Strauch

Maksim Maksimovich Shtraukh (; 1900–1974) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. He was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1965, Lenin Prize and Stalin Prize between 1950 and 1951. He is known for playing Vladimir Lenin on stage and in film. He had a privilege to get a discount for V. I. Lenin bust at any USSR shop. Selected filmography 1923 – Glumov's Diary 1924 – Strike 1929 – The General Line 1929 – The Ghost That Never Returns 1930 – The Civil Servant 1933 – The Deserter 1933 – The Conveyor of Death 1934 – The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe 1936 – A Severe Young Man 1938 – Doctor Aybolit 1938 – The Man with the Gun 1938 – The Vyborg Side 1940 – Yakov Sverdlov 1942 – His Name Is Sukhe-Bator 1943 – Two Soldiers 1943 – The Young Fritz 1946 – The Vow 1947 – Light over Russia 1948 – The Court of Honor 1949 – The Battle of Stalingrad 1949 – The Fall of Berlin 1950 – Conspiracy of the Doomed 1956 – Murder on Dante Street 1957 – Stories About Lenin 1957 – Leningrad Symphony 1965 – Lenin in Poland References