Sergei Eisenstein's ~ "October: Ten Days That Shook the World" (1927)

[CHE with an AK]

Many consider this influential celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution to be an inspiring masterpiece ...



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Link to watch in full screen (below)
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What are your views on it?

[CHE with an AK]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/October_film_Lenin.jpg/200px-October_film_Lenin.jpg (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/File:October_film_Lenin.jpg)


Style
Eisenstein used the film to further develop his theories of film structure, using a concept he described as "intellectual montage", the editing together of shots of apparently unconnected objects in order to create and encourage intellectual comparisons between them. One of the film's most celebrated examples of this technique is a baroque image of Jesus that is compared, through a series of shots, to Hindu deities, the Buddha, Aztec gods, and finally a primitive idol in order to suggest the sameness of all religions; the idol is then compared with military regalia to suggest the linking of patriotism and religious fervour by the state. In another sequence Alexander Kerensky, head of the pre-Bolshevik revolutionary Provisional Government, is compared to a preening mechanical peacock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October:_Ten_Days_That_Shook_the_World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October:_Ten_Days_That_Shook_the_World)

[Commissar Rykov]

I enjoyed it but I found it harder to get into compared to Battleship Potemkin.

[Kléber]

Great movie. A full print was recently restored, with 40 minutes of extra footage, including all the deleted Trotsky scenes. No idea where to get a hold of it though.