October: Ten Days That Shook the World

This article is about the film. For the book, see Ten Days That Shook the World.

October:
Ten Days That Shook the World
Film poster
Directed by
Written by
  • Grigori Aleksandrov
  • Sergei Eisenstein
Produced byArkadiy Alekseyev
Starring
  • Vladimir Popov
  • Vasili Nikandrov
  • Layaschenko
CinematographyEduard Tisse
Edited byEsfir Tobak (Restoration)
Music byEdmund Meisel
Dmitri Shostakovich (1966)
Distributed bySovkino
Release date
  • 20 January 1928 (1928-01-20)
Running time
  • 115 minutes (Original version)
  • 100 minutes (Edited version)
CountrySoviet Union
LanguagesSilent
Russian (original intertitles)
October: Ten Days That Shook the World; Russian intertitles, with subtitles

October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Russian: Октябрь (Десять дней, которые потрясли мир); translit. Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir) is a 1928 Soviet silent propaganda film written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov. It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the event. Originally released in the Soviet Union as October, the film was re-edited and released internationally as Ten Days That Shook The World, after John Reed's popular 1919 book on the Revolution.[1]

  1. ^ Taylor, Richard. Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. London: I.B.Tauris, 1998. p. 63.