The Great Citizen (Russian: Великий гражданин, romanized: Velikiy grazhdanin) is a 1938 Soviet biopic film directed by Fridrikh Ermler.^[1]

The Great Citizen (Великий гражданин)
Directed by	Fridrikh Ermler
Written by	Mikhail Bleiman Manuel Bolshintsov Fridrikh Ermler
Starring	Nikolay Bogolyubov
Edited by	Ye. Makhankova
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Production company	Lenfilm
Release dates	13 February 1938 (1938-02-13) 27 November 1939 (1939-11-27)
Running time	252 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

A fictionalized biography of Sergei Kirov (the character's name is Shakhov), the film was intended as ideological support for the Great Purges; it depicts life in USSR during the 1920s and 1930s.

Stalin made direct interventions in Mikhail Bleiman and Manuel Bolshintsov's screenplay. During the making of The Great Citizen four people associated with it were arrested. In the press Ermler and his screenwriters were obliged to condemn the "wrecker" leadership of Lenfilm, most importantly Piotrovski.^[2]