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October
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1hr 43min
Release:
1927
Directors:
Grigory Alexandrov, Sergei Eisenstein
Distributor:
Image Entertainment
Starring:
Vasiliy Nikandrov, N. Popov, Boris Livanov  ...more
Synopsis: Borrowing its title from a book by American journalist John Reed (of Reds fame), Sergei Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World reenacts the crucial week-and-a-half in October, 1918, when the Russian Kerensky regime was toppled by the Bolsheviks. While Eisenstein takes certain liberties in characterization--those opposing the Bolsheviks are depicted as mental defectives or grossly overweight clowns--his re-creation of such events as the storming of the Winter Palace are painstakingly meticulous. ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Expanding on his editing experiments in Battleship Potemkin (1925), Sergei Eisenstein melded documentary realism with narrative metaphor to depict the pivotal events of the Russian Revolution in October (1927). Commissioned to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution, Eisenstein focused on a few key events from February 1917 to October 1917. Underlining the symbolic importance ... Full Review
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Vasiliy Nikandrov
Lenin
N. Popov
Kerensky
Boris Livanov
Minister Terechtichenko, Minister Tereshchenko
Eduard K. Tissé
A German
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