October: The End of a Revolution

March 14, 2011, 07:06 AM

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2011/cteq/october-th...

In 1926, the October Revolution Jubilee Committee pulled Sergei Eisenstein, Grigorii Aleksandrov, and cameraman Eduard Tisse away from Generalnaia Liniia (The General Line, eventually completed in 1929) to begin work on a new film. Commissioned along with Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Konets Sankt-Peterburga (The End of St. Petersburg, 1927), Boris Barnet’s Moskva v Oktiabre (Moscow in October, 1927), and Esfir Shub’s Velikii put (The Great Way, 1927), Oktyabr (October) was slated to premiere at the...

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