October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

Октябрь

1928 · 1h 55m · 6.9

Drama, History

Sergei 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.

Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein

Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Boris Livanov, Mikholyev, Chibisov, Nikolai Padvoisky, Smelsky, Eduard Tisse, Nikolay Popov

government, coup d'etat, czar / tsar / tzar, monarchy, silent film, russian revolution (1917), soviet realism