October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927)

Original title

Октябрь

Directed by

Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein

Genre

drama film, silent film, historical film, propaganda film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 224 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent film dramatizes the October Revolution of 1917. It shows crowds, leaders, and key events of the uprising.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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