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

Drama

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.

Cast

Aleksandr Kerensky
Vladimir Popov
Lenin
V Vasili Nikandrov
Konovalov
L Layaschenko
Minister Terestsenko
Boris Livanov
Kishkin
M Mikholyev
Skobolev
C Chibisov
Bolshevik
N Nikolai Padvoisky
Verderevsky
S Smelsky
German Soldier
Eduard Tisse

Crew

Screenplay
Grigori Aleksandrov
Screenplay
Sergei Eisenstein
Original Music Composer
E Edmund Meisel
Director of Photography
Eduard Tisse
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Director
Grigori Aleksandrov
Art Direction
Vasili Kovrigin
Art Direction
A A. Alekseev
Sound
V V. Babushkin
Sound
V V. Ladygin
Book
John Reed
Original Music Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Editor
Esfir Tobak
Assistant Director
Mikhail Gomorov
Assistant Director
Maksim Shtraukh
Assistant Director
I Ilya Trauberg
Conductor
F Frank Strobel