October: Ten Days That Shook the World

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Soviet film black-and-white film historical film silent film

"October: Ten Days That Shook the World" is a 1928 Soviet silent historical film by Sergei Eisenstein that dramatizes the events of the 1917 October Revolution using his pioneering montage techniques.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Soviet film → black-and-white film → historical film → silent film →
alsoKnownAs	October → Oktyabr →
basedOn	October Revolution →
censorship	subject to cuts by Soviet authorities →
cinematographyBy	Eduard Tisse →
coDirector	Grigori Aleksandrov →
colorProcess	black and white →
commissionedBy	Soviet government →
countryOfOrigin	Soviet Union →
depictsEvent	1917 October Revolution → storming of the Winter Palace →
director	Sergei Eisenstein →
era	silent film era →
filmFormat	35 mm →
filmMovement	Soviet montage →
genre	historical drama → revolutionary propaganda film →
influenced	montage theory in film → political cinema →
musicBy	Dmitri Shostakovich →
notableFor	pioneering montage techniques → political symbolism →
originalLanguage	Russian →
portrays	Alexander Kerensky → Bolsheviks → Leon Trotsky (minimally or omitted due to politics) → Provisional Government → Vladimir Lenin →
portraysOrganization	Petrograd Soviet → Red Guards → Russian Provisional Government →
productionCompany	Sovkino →
productionType	state-sponsored film →
purpose	commemorate tenth anniversary of October Revolution →
releaseDate	1928-01-14 →
releaseYear	1928 →
runtime	approximately 104 minutes →
screenwriter	Sergei Eisenstein →
setInLocation	Petrograd →
setInPeriod	1917 →
subject	Bolshevik Revolution →
usesTechnique	intellectual montage → montage →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Storming of the Winter Palace →	depictedIn
Sergei Eisenstein →	notableWork