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Eisenstein’s October
The movie, October: Ten Days that shook the world, is a film on the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. The film takes a narrative approach, and describes the events that shook St. Petersburg. The film then encompasses the roar of ravaging crowds, the sounds of soldiers marching past, the shots of guns that killed millions, the noise of the crowded buses and trains that took away the fleeing millions. With each of these symbolic representations, Eisenstein brings alive the anguish, desperation and plight of the contemporary Russians, who were struggling to cope with the fall of an incompetent monarchy, as ...
