Revolution in Russia (1906)

Original title

La Révolution en Russie

Directed by

Lucien Nonguet

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

4 min

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French silent short film from 1905. It reenacts recent events from the 1905 Russian Revolution, including the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin.

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What happens

La révolution en Russie, also known as Les événements d'Odessa and La révolte du cuirassée Potemkine is a 1905 French silent short film directed by Lucien Nonguet, and distributed in English-speaking countries under the titles Revolution in Russia and Revolution in Odessa. The film dramatises the re-enactment of events that had taken place a short time before in the context of the 1905 Russian Revolution and which would be the subject twenty years later of Sergei Eisenstein's celebrated film, Battleship Potemkin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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