October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

1928 · 115 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 8,722 VOTES · DIR. Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) poster

Overview

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.

Drama1920s

Dialogue Timeline — 373 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:12 Studio MOSFILM
00:01:24 account of the early days of
00:02:45 ScreenpIay and Direction
00:06:05 TO THE CITIZENS OF RUSSIA!
00:11:00 ApriI 3rd
00:13:40 Meeting foIIowed meeting outside the buiIding where
00:19:52 The counter-revoIutionaries had won.
00:24:01 The tsar's Iackeys.
00:30:12 The RevoIution is in danger!
00:32:53 Which of the two?
00:37:37 The ''TURNCOATS.''
00:43:23 ''This wiII be the Iast and decisive battIe!''
00:45:47 Lenin was in the SmoIny.
00:48:29 ''To the teIephone exchange!''
00:53:39 TO THE ClTlZENS OF RUSSlA
00:59:38 DeIegates from the front.
01:02:21 ''Comrades.''
01:05:14 ''Down with him !''
01:11:02 Waiting for a repIy.
01:18:01 ''We have been given an uItimatum.''
01:20:57 ''Comrades!''
01:25:47 ''We want peace!''
01:36:52 on behaIf of the MiIitary RevoIutionary Committee...''
01:38:47 ''We must now set about buiIding

Cast & Characters

Boris Livanov Terestsenko Nikolay Popov Kerenskiy Vasili Nikandrov V.I. Lenin Layaschenko Konovalov Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko Self Chibisov Skobolev Mikholyev Kishkin Nikolai Podvoisky Bolshevik Smelsky Verderevsky Eduard Tisse German Soldier

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed373
Dialogue density3.2 lines / min
First line00:00:12
Final line01:38:47

Production Record

DirectorSergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes8,722