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October: Ten Days That Shook the World
Also known as October
1927 film by Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
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6.9Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
Released: 1928-05-11115 minDir: Sergei EisensteinDrama, History
Cast
- Vladimir Popov as Aleksandr Kerensky
- Vasili Nikandrov as Lenin
- Layaschenko as Konovalov
- Boris Livanov as Minister Terestsenko
- Mikholyev as Kishkin
- Chibisov as Skobolev
Themes
- government
~10 min read
Article
October: Ten Days That Shook the World; Russian intertitles, with subtitles October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Russian: Октябрь: Десять дней, которые потрясли мир, romanized: Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir) is a 1928 Soviet silent propaganda film written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov. It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the event. Originally released in the Soviet Union as October, the film was re-edited and released internationally as Ten Days That Shook The World, after John Reed's popular 1919 book on the Revolution.
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