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Alexander Sokurov: Taurus (2001)

Taurus (Телец) is a 2001 Russian biographical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov, portraying Vladimir Lenin. It is the second film in a trilogy by director Aleksandr Sokurov that began with Moloch about Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler and continued with The Sun about Japanese emperor Hirohito. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The action of the film takes place over the course of a summer day in Gorki, where the seriously ill Lenin spends the last months of his life surrounded by incompetent servants and numerous guards, whose main task is to reliably isolate him from the outside world. Telephone communication with Moscow is chronically disrupted, and no correspondence reaches Lenin. Without somebody's help, he cannot walk, dress, undress, or take a bath. His memory often fails him. The leader's physical suffering is aggravated by the knowledge that he is effectively removed from power and from politics, without which there is nothing left in his life except an incurable, progressive disease. Most of the main character's direct speech, even when he addresses others, is an internal monologue in which he painfully experiences the tragedy that has befallen him. At times, Lenin bursts into outbursts of impotent anger, directed either at the guards or at his wife and sister, who share his confinement. He discusses the idea of voluntary suicide with Krupskaya, but he does not have the means to do so, and he turns to Stalin, who has visited him, with a request to give him poison. Stalin expresses sympathy and understanding, but promises only to discuss this request at the Politburo, without which he allegedly cannot do anything. Perhaps this request is a political game - an attempt to deliver an ultimatum to the Politburo, because in another scene Lenin, who has fallen into oblivion, is visited by his mother (by then already deceased) and calls him to her, he refuses: 'No! It's too early! I haven't managed to do much yet.'