October: Ten Days That Shook the World
- Vasily Nikandrow: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Nikolai Popov Alexander Kerensky
- Boris Livanov: Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko
- Nikolai Podwoiski: Head of the Petrograd Revolution bar ( self)
- Eduard Tisse: a German soldier
- Vladimir Antonov - Ovseyenko: he himself
- Grigori Zinoviev he himself
- Workers of Petrograd, the Red Army and Red sailors of the Baltic Fleet
October is a silent film directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein from the year 1928. It was shot on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The full title is: October. Ten Days that Shook the World (Russian: Октябрь / Десять дней, которые потрясли мир ) based on the book Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed.
Action
The film introduces the processes and the October Revolution of 1917 from the perspective of the Bolsheviks dar. in suggestive images, the richness of the previous Tsarist rule is shown repeatedly. After the signal from the Aurora the Winter Palace is occupied with the Provisional Government. Trotsky declared deposed. The last scene shows Lenin at the lectern: Long live the world! The revolution of the workers and peasants is finished! After these two tablets of the reconstructed film ends.
Background
The music was by Edmund Meisel and Dimitri Shostakovich. The premiere took place on March 14, 1928 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the German premiere on April 2, 1928 Tauentzienpalast in Berlin. Since you had a similar pathetic movie like Battleship Potemkin expected, the audience responded to the complex and ironic work irritated and hostile. The Soviet critics accused Eisenstein, October is too demanding, too intellectual, too obscure and aestheticized; the work, therefore, does not correspond to the spirit of communist revolution.
The film was a failure. This was also due to some short term has become necessary changes: Actually, the first performance for the November 7, 1927 had been planned. But this was canceled because Stalin immediately above gave instructions to take the scenes with his recently ousted rival Leon Trotsky from the film. It is unclear how Eisenstein's original conception of October, as the film ultimately remained unfinished and also several scenes have been lost.
The Munich Film Museum has made for the TV station ARTE Neurekonstruktion of the film, which was presented on 10 February 2012 at the Berlinale. For this, the film music of Edmund Meisel was reconstructed by the composer Bernd Thewes and re-recorded by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Frank Strobel. The reconstruction also includes again some of the removed scenes with Trotsky.