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October - Ten Days That Shook The World [VHS] [1927] starring: Nikolai Popov, Boris Livanov, Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko

Publisher: Palisades Tartan
Release date: 28th July, 1997
Media: VHS Tape

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• Black & White
• PAL
• Subtitled

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Rating: - Historical epic of its time

Do my eyes deceive me or did reviewers expect to watch this and not see pro-revolutionary content?

This film is unique and stands alone in the history of film-making as the closest thing to a record of one of the most defining moments in the history of mankind. Not only is it groundbreaking in its mechanics and methodology, but it broke all the moulds in cinematic history and formed the template for the next 20, 30 years of moviemaking.

Even watching as a non-committed political animal, you have to agree that the drama and tension transmitted in this document is unsurpassed; the transfer of the considerable lands, wealth and assets of Russia from a handful of privileged aristocrats to the people is a story which even the most seasoned narrator could not help but get worked up at. The October Revolution shaped the world for the 20th century, and unwittingly shaped an agrarian sleeping giant into the advanced industrial monolith we see still today. Indeed, were it not for the birth of the (eventual) USSR, Hitler may well have been victorious in 1941 after all, and picked off North america at will.

See this film for what it is - a fantastic historical document of its time. Forget the rhetoric behind the content, the story of the biggest political event in history is told well and forged its rightful place in cinematic history.

Rating: - Pure agitprop

If you expect realism, you won't get it. This is pure propaganda, as in The Battleship Potemkin, and not as good. There are several excellent scenes, some totally unbelievable baddies, and an inexplicable ability by the reactionaries to carry on oppressing everybody despite the incredible number of goodies who have rallied to the bolshevik cause.

The plus side is a series of crowd scenes that look forward to Alexander Nevsky, and the real-time slow burn of the wait before storming the Winter Palace.

The picture quality is excellent.

Worth seeing, if you like Eisenstein, but is it worth buying?

Rating: - Great DVD, boring movie

When I started playing this DVD, I was blasted by its amazingly on topic animated menus. I wasn't expecting that from a company that had previously released only static/silent menus. The transfer is good, they use a digitaly remastered version instead of just any old print. The only problem I had was with the movie. It has excellent visuals, but the plot got blurred to my eyes in the middle. Unfortunately, this isnt my type of movie, but this DVD is so great, and the movie so full of classic visuals, I can't bear to give it a mark lower than 3 stars.

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