October : Ten Days That Shook the World
(2015, original release: 1927)

Fiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 116 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
1120957
LANGUAGE
English
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October: Ten Days That Shook the World is a 1927 Soviet silent propaganda film by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov, sometimes referred to as October. It is a film epic about the 1917 October Revolution and Revolution in Petrograd. The title is taken from John Reed's book on the Revolution, Ten Days That Shook The World. The film was commissioned by the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. Its premiere took place at the Bolshoi Theatre on November 7, 1927

Originally produced by Ruscico - Russian Cinema Council in 1927

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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