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Film Description
Commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the 1917 Revolution, October focuses on the 10 days when the Bolsheviks brought down Kerensky's Provisional Government. A visually dynamic expression of abstract ideas, no film has quicker editing or uses more individual shots per minute. Eisenstein's film eschews tub-thumping propaganda in favour of further experiments in the intellectual montage elaborated in critical works "The Film Sense" and "Film Form." The result has lost none of its power to attract.
A wholly inaccurate account of the Russian revolution! I will explain why...
1. There were not 1000's of Bolshevik red guards attacking the Winter palace ( as port... more >
A wholly inaccurate account of the Russian revolution! I will explain why...
1. There were not 1000's of Bolshevik red guards attacking the Winter palace ( as portrayed by Eisenstein)
2.It was not as well organised as it was portrayed in the film. In truth the attack was to begin in the morning. ?It only begun 10 hrs later because of technical difficulties.
3. There was no artillery in the hands of the Bolsheviks ( exception, one shot fired by a battleship)
4.The days following the attack the winter palace looked like the Oktober Fest! After the Bolsheviks had found the Tsars liquor cellar filled with bottles of vodka they decided to celebrate!
This obviously a propaganda film with hardly any historical accuracy. The should call it Eisensteins "October, A Fictional Account of the Russian Revolution" < less
