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The film remains an interesting oddity rather than entertaining or illuminating. Indeed, watching it today can seem hard work.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1928 · 1h 55m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Sergei Eisenstein
,
Grigori Aleksandrov
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Sergei Eisenstein Director
- Grigori Aleksandrov Director
- Vladimir Popov as Aleksandr Kerensky
- Vasili Nikandrov as Lenin
- Layaschenko as Konovalov
- Boris Livanov as Minister Terestsenko
- Mikholyev as Kishkin
- N. Podvoisky as Bolshevik
- Chibisov as Skobolev
- Nikolai Padvoisky as Bolshevik
- Smelsky as Verderevsky
- Eduard Tisse as German Soldier
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Much of the montage is reductive and static, but some of the action scenes are genuinely stirring -- when he wasn't editorializing, the man really could cut film.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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