Commissioned by the Soviet government in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, this work is considered a propaganda film for its meticulous reenactment of the 1920 mass spectacle The Storming of the Winter Palace. Edited in Eisenstein’s “intellectual montage” style, October is an unemotional but sharply engaging depiction of the Bolshevik’s overthrow of Tsarist autocracy. 1928, DCP, restoration of original version in Russian with English subtitles and music, 119 minutes.
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