About the film
Made for the tenth anniversary of the revolution, October follows the events of 1917 from the fall of the Tsar to the Bolshevik seizure of power.
Eisenstein restaged the key moments with huge crowds in the real locations of Petrograd, using bold montage to turn history into visual argument.
Its storming of the Winter Palace became so famous that it is often mistaken for real documentary footage.
Did you know?
- Lenin is played by Vasily Nikandrov, a worker chosen for his resemblance.
- It was made for the tenth anniversary of the revolution.
- It is a silent film.
