October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

1h 55m
Drama
6.8

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.

Cast

Vladimir Popov
Aleksandr Kerensky
Vasili Nikandrov
Lenin
Layaschenko
Konovalov
Boris Livanov
Minister Terestsenko
Mikholyev
Kishkin
Chibisov
Skobolev
Nikolai Padvoisky
Bolshevik
Smelsky
Verderevsky
Eduard Tisse
German Soldier
Nikolay Popov
Kerenskiy

Crew

Sergei Eisenstein
Director, Screenplay
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director, Screenplay
John Reed
Book
Esfir Tobak
Editor
Eduard Tisse
Director of Photography
Mikhail Gomorov
Assistant Director
Maksim Shtraukh
Assistant Director
Ilya Trauberg
Assistant Director
V. Babushkin
Sound
Valentin Ladygin
Sound
Edmund Meisel
Original Music Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Original Music Composer
Frank Strobel
Conductor
Vasiliy Kovrigin
Art Direction
A. Alekseev
Art Direction

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