1928 · drama · silent · history
October: Ten Days That Shook the World
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov1h 55m1928
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.
Our read: October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · silent · history entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / silent, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
- cold
- signature
- epic-stakes
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