Maksim Shtraukh

Soviet actor and theatre director

Maksim Shtraukh

Born	Maksim Maksimovich Shtraukh (1900-02-23)23 February 1900 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	3 January 1974(1974-01-03) (aged 73) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Actor, theatre director
Years active	1925-1974

Maksim Maksimovich Shtraukh (Russian: Макси́м Макси́мович Штра́ух; 1900–1974) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.^[1] He was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1965, Lenin Prize and Stalin Prize between 1950 and 1951.^[2]

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

^ Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 679–670. ISBN 1442268425.
^ Максим Штраух — биография