In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Ardent Fighter for the Cause of the Working Class, for the Cause of Communism, Fearless LeninistBolshevik, Friend and Comrade-in-Arms of Stalin the Great

The film is about the life and work of Grigory Ordzhonikidze Konstantinoviche, an important personality in both the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The film includes speeches by his bereaved friends who attended his funeral. In 1937, after the unexpected death of Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Vertov received an urgent order from the government to produce a film about the life of Ordzhonikidze. He was ordered to work together with Yakov Bliohom and the director of the film "Battleship Potemkin" distributed by Goskino (Soviet State Committee for Cinematography).
Cast

Joseph Stalin
Himself

Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze
Self

Vasiliy Kachalov
Narrator (voice)
M. Lebedev
Narrator (voice)
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