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Studio MOSFILM
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OCTOBER
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This film
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was produced in 1927
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by a group
of soviet filmakers,
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led by Sergei Eisenstein
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for the Tenth Anniversary
of the October Revolution.
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This film recreates
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the events of October 191 7
with the greatest possible realism.
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Many participants of
the Revolution,
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Red Guards,
soldiers and sailors
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appear in the film.
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Among them is
Nikolai Podvolsky,
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one of the leaders
of the armed uprising.
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Leningrad and its streets,
the Winter Palace,
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the corridors of the Smolny,
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were the same as in that
fateful year.
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Thus, OCTOBER 191 7 renders
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a stirring ''eyewitness''
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account of the early days of
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the birth of the
Soviet Union.
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A masterpiece created by
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one of the world's greatest
film directors,
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it's a welcome
gift to film viewers.
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The original film premiered
in the era of the silent screen.
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This sound version was made by
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Eisenstein's associate
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Grigory Alexandrov.
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The music is by
Dimitri Shostakovich.