The read
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
231 audience votes
Key crew
- Grigori AleksandrovScreenplay
- Edmund MeiselOriginal Music Composer
- Sergei EisensteinScreenplay
- Sergei EisensteinDirector
- Grigori AleksandrovDirector
- Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Vladimir PopovAleksandr Kerensky
- Vasili NikandrovLenin
- LayaschenkoKonovalov
- Boris LivanovMinister Terestsenko
- MikholyevKishkin
- ChibisovSkobolev
- Nikolai PadvoiskyBolshevik
- SmelskyVerderevsky
- Eduard TisseGerman Soldier
- Nikolay PopovKerenskiy
Stills
Themes
governmentcoup d'etatczar / tsar / tzarmonarchysilent filmrussian revolution (1917)soviet realism