October: Ten Days That Shook the World

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"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
October
surface form: Oktyabr
basedOn Russian Revolution
surface form: 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 Russian Revolution
surface form: 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
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolsheviks

Leon Trotsky
surface form: Leon Trotsky (minimally or omitted due to politics)

Russian Provisional Government
surface form: 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 Leningrad
surface form: Petrograd
setInPeriod 1917
subject Russian Revolution
surface form: Bolshevik Revolution
usesTechnique intellectual montage
montage

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Sergei Eisenstein notableWork October: Ten Days That Shook the World
Storming of the Winter Palace depictedIn October: Ten Days That Shook the World
Grigori Aleksandrov workedOn October: Ten Days That Shook the World
Eduard Tisse notableWork October: Ten Days That Shook the World
Edmund Meisel workedOn October: Ten Days That Shook the World
this entity surface form: October (Ten Days That Shook the World)
Soviet film industry notableFilm October: Ten Days That Shook the World