October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
(1928)
★ 6.9 IMDb · 228 votes
Year: 1928
Runtime: 102 мин
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Григорий Александров, Сергей Эйзенштейн
Cast: Владимир Попов, Василий Никандров, Layaschenko, Борис Ливанов, Mikholyev, Chibisov, Nikolai Padvoisky, Smelsky, Эдуард Тиссэ, Nikolay Popov
Plot
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.
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year. Lenin returns in April. In July, counter-revolutionaries put down a spontaneous revolt, and Lenin's arrest is ordered. By late October, the Bolsheviks are ready to strike: ten days will shake the world. While the Mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace. Anatov-Oveyenko leads the attack and signs the proclamation dissolving the provisional government.