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October (Ten Days That Shook the World) (1928)

Nikolai Popov , Boris Livanov , Grigori Aleksandrov , Sergei M. Eisenstein  |  NR |  DVD
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Nikolai Popov, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko
  • Directors: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
  • Writers: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Boris Agapow, John Reed
  • Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC, Silent
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: Image Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: December 29, 1998
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6305186774
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,726 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "October (Ten Days That Shook the World)" on IMDb

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Officially produced to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Russian Revolution, October quickly became another of Sergei Eisenstein's experiments in film form. As in his masterpiece, Battleship Potemkin, Eisenstein uses explosive montage to create the spirit of revolution--in this case, the events in St. Petersburg during the months leading up to the Bolshevik revolt. Eisenstein's insistence on speaking the language of pure film (deploying space, shadow, movement, and rhythm to create his meaning) shoves his mad rush of images straight into the viewer's eye. A worker's rebellion in the streets, followed by the raising of bridges to isolate their neighborhood, becomes a visual symphony of panic. The film has also been known as Ten Days That Shook the World, its release title in the U.S. (borrowed from the book by John Reed). Its value as propaganda can be debated, but October is incredibly dynamic as film art. --Robert Horton

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Russian director Sergei Eisenstein's powerful retelling of the 1917 Russian Revolution, "October" is an acknowledged masterpiece in the use of editing, lighting, camera placement and mise-en-scene. An absolute must for any film connoisseurs collection.

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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Refined but difficult October 12, 2005
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Rating and reviewing movies like these are often difficult for the average critic. On one hand, they're done absolutely brilliantly done in ways that take one's breath away; on the other hand, how much credit can you give to a movie that is pure propaganda, especially propaganda for something the reviewer doesn't agree with?

This "realistic re-enactment" of the events of October 25th, 1917, is actually anything but realism. Instead, it is a harrowing and amazing Romantic experience. This is not to say it's bad--it's brilliant! The direction and editing on this film are much more refined than Eisenstein's previous and much-more-heralded film, Brenonsets Potyemkin (Battleship Potemkin), and it has a whole lot more symbolism and focus on literary devices. His fast-paced cutting is not as disjunctive as previously; instead, it works to shock the viewer with the juxtapositions. I don't think I shall ever get the quick back-and-forth cutting between that one soldier's face and the firing machine gun ever out of my mind. It's just that powerful.

This movie is so good, in fact, that it makes me proud to be a Bolshevik... and I'm not, not in any way or form! How's that for being a powerful, well-done movie? The Birth of a Nation didn't effectively make me proud to be a Klansman, for a comparison...

Because of its intense political alignment, I can't see everyone appreciating this film. There will always be those out there who say, "Ah, it's only Communist propaganda" (which is right) "so it's not even worth watching..." (which is wrong). For those who are looking for a magnificent cinematic experience, however, this movie is a fine choice indeed.

--PolarisDiB
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Seminal Eisenstein June 30, 2002
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This movie is not exactly designed for casual enjoyment. It's no surprize that it was not very popular when it was first released. Eisenstein takes a fairly intricate, if not convoluted, episode in history and recreates it through a maddening pace of of montage intercut, while establishing no particular characters to build any story around. So the film must be appreciated almost solely for the technique of its brilliant director (along with an excellent Shostakovich soundtrack). Not a great date flick, this is an ideal DVD for students of film history to challenge themselves.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary in form and content July 16, 1999
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October shows both the revolutionary nature of Eisenstein's cinematic style, and the revolutionary nature of the story told. His further use and development of montage (after "Strike" and "Potemkin") allow Eisenstein to discuss one of the most profound events of modern history, the Russian Revolution. Though the rise of Stalin obscured Eisenstein's ability to accurately depict the revolution, the original version stands out as one of the more detailed and accurate accounts (One note: the actual insurrection, the storming of the Winter Palace, resulted in less bloodshed and death than did the filming). Eisenstein portrays the tsar and his bureaucracy as corrupt, inept and cynical; and portrays the provisional government as a bunch of opportunistic liars, bound to the forces of domestic and foreign capital. The force which was able to defeat the old rulers thus became the mass of workers and peasants, led by the Bolsheviks (note: daringly enough, Stalin is accurately left out of the leadership of the Revolution, with Lenin, Trotsky, and the Party as the leadership of the Revolution). A must see for those interested in social change and the labor movement, cinematic and artistic brilliance, or a combination of the two.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Authentic
Used this film to illustrate the Bolshevik Revolution to my special ed world history students. They were entranced. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Stacia Felix
3.0 out of 5 stars This film was ok
I read up on what this DVD is all about, but as I was viewing the movie several times I could not understand what was going on. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Richard B
2.0 out of 5 stars Impressionist Revolutioon
Eisenstein's Tenth Anniversary recreation of the October Uprising certainly isn't designed to educate about the event, it is meant to stir the passions of remembrance. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Michael Harbour
4.0 out of 5 stars All Shook Up (On the Cutting Room Floor)
I agree with the reviewer who wrote that OKTOBER would be a difficult film to follow if the viewer didn't have an historical grasp of the events depicted. Read more
Published on September 16, 2010 by Jeff Farrow
4.0 out of 5 stars great except for subtitles
Great film, version comes as described, but often subtitles aren't readable--same color as background, simply get lost.
Published on June 13, 2010 by gwells
3.0 out of 5 stars October Eisenstein
Only thing I can say about this movie is that it is really hard to understand each shot that the director was trying to express, respectively, if you do not have a brief... Read more
Published on May 11, 2010 by C. Yang
5.0 out of 5 stars Eisenstein's Propaganda Masterpiece
Sergei Eisenstein, who is generally regarded as one of the most important innovators in global cinema history, directed this must-see account of the October Revolution in 1917... Read more
Published on September 12, 2009 by Richard Faust
4.0 out of 5 stars THE DEFINITIVE EVENT OF THE 20TH CENTURY
I have reviewed Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky's definitive three-volume work The History of the Russian Revolution that covers this same topic elsewhere in this space. Read more
Published on September 4, 2007 by Alfred Johnson
1.0 out of 5 stars Blah...
I liked the other Eisenstein movies that I've watched. Alexander Nevsky is a classic and would probably be more of a classic if it were American. Read more
Published on December 25, 2006 by Ken Bailey
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Propoganda Film
October is a re-telling of the events of the Russian revolution. However, it was commissioned as a propoganda piece so that the only "character" that stands out is Lenin, who, of... Read more
Published on October 4, 2006 by directions
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