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** RuleOfDrama: Except for the huge battle to take the Winter Palace, which vastly exaggerated the event. In real life after the palace was shelled, a small group of Red Guards entered via an back staircase and wandered the palace until they found the ministers in an unguarded room.
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: The Bolsheviks are good. Everyone else is either too tyrannical or too vacillating. It is a propaganda film, after all.
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* GodwinsLaw: The movie spends some time comparing Kerensky to UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, evidently the pre-Hitler version of this trope.
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''October'' is a 1928 silent film from the [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]], directed by Creator/SergeiEisenstein. In foreign markets it was given the longer title ''October: Ten Days That Shook the World'', to tie in with the account of the Russian Revolution written by John Reed. It tells the story of the Russian Revolution of 1917, starting with the overthrow of the monarchy, continuing through the unrest of the July Days, and ending with UsefulNotes/RedOctober and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks.
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''October'' is a 1928 silent film from the [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]], directed by Creator/SergeiEisenstein. In foreign markets it was given the longer title ''October: Ten Days That Shook the World'', to tie in with the account of the Russian Revolution written by John Reed. It tells the story of the Russian Revolution of 1917, starting with the overthrow of the monarchy, continuing through the unrest of the July Days, and ending with UsefulNotes/RedOctober and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Lot of arguing between the socialist left on how to proceed. The Mensheviks are portrayed as weak and vacillating, in contrast to the brave, decisive Bolsheviks. One gag features a Menshevik speaker getting up at a meeting and urging caution, while an audience member falls asleep, and angels play harps in the background.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Lot There's a lot of arguing between the socialist left on how to proceed. The Mensheviks are portrayed as weak and vacillating, in contrast to the brave, decisive Bolsheviks. One gag features a Menshevik speaker getting up at a meeting and urging caution, while an audience member falls asleep, and angels play harps in the background. This is actually propaganda though-the Bolsheviks dragged their feet prior to both revolutions, aside from Lenin. If he hadn't urged them forward, it's likely their revolution wouldn't have even happened.
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''October'' is a 1928 silent film from the [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]], directed by Creator/SergeiEisenstein. In foreign markets it was given the longer title ''October: Ten Days That Shook the World'', to tie in with the account of the Russian Revolution written by John Reed. It tells the story of the Russian Revolution of 1917, starting with the overthrow of the monarchy, continuing through the unrest of the July Days, and ending with RedOctober UsefulNotes/RedOctober and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks.
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* TheCoup: The successful Bolshevik takeover in RedOctober.
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* TheCoup: The successful Bolshevik takeover in RedOctober.October.
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* ToppledStatue: The film starts with the toppling of a statue of Tsar Alexander III, demonstrating that it is March 1917 and the monarchy has been overthrown.
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* FullCircleRevolution: Kerensky and the rest of the Provisional Government are portrayed as wanting to be this. In the film Kerensky is shown to want to be dictator. He moves into the royal family's apartments in the Winter Palace.
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* MeetTheNewBoss: Kerensky and the rest of the Provisional Government are portrayed as wanting to be this. In the film Kerensky is shown to want to be dictator. He moves into the royal family's apartments in the Winter Palace. See CallBack above.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Tell 'em Ilich!]]
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* StockFootage: This movie is ''the'' source for Russian Revolution stock footage. You know that footage you've seen countless times of Bolshevik revolutionaries dramatically storming in through the gates of the Winter Palace? That's from this movie. Whenever the Russian Revolution comes up in a film, especially a documentary, you can expect it to be visualized with scenes from ''October''. Ironically, this includes some anti-communist propaganda films. ''October'' is old enough that its scenes look like they're from the time (sometimes, documentaries will simply let ''October'' footage blend in with actual 1917 footage) and it helps that it's in the PublicDomain.
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* EnsembleCast: Like Eisenstein's other propaganda films, ''October'' shows the revolution as a collective endeavor, with no protagist and little attempt at characterization for anyone save maybe the BigBad, Kerensky. At the time of release the film attracted criticism from Soviets disappointed with the [[FlatCharacter flat characterization]] of Lenin.
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* EnsembleCast: Like Eisenstein's other propaganda films, ''October'' shows the revolution as a collective endeavor, with no protagist protagonist and little attempt at characterization for anyone save maybe the BigBad, Kerensky. At the time of release the film attracted criticism from Soviets disappointed with the [[FlatCharacter flat characterization]] of Lenin.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Eisenstein apparently had a Flavor 2 view, as he takes care to show that the car whisking Kerensky away is flying an American flag.
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* ShownTheirWork: Eisenstein takes care to show the American flag flying from Kerensky's car. Kerensky did in fact flee Petrograd in a car stolen from the American embassy.
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* {{Montages}}: Eisenstein more or less invented these. The most famous montage in this film is the scene where frames of a soldier firing a machine gun are intercut with closeups of the machine gun, spitting lead.
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** The most famous montage in this film is the scene where frames of a soldier firing a machine gun are intercut with closeups of the machine gun, spittinglead.lead.
** A rifle assembles itself from constituent parts, as the film exhorts the proletarians to defend the revolution.
** The most famous montage in this film is the scene where frames of a soldier firing a machine gun are intercut with closeups of the machine gun, spitting
** A rifle assembles itself from constituent parts, as the film exhorts the proletarians to defend the revolution.
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* MeetTheNewBoss: Kerensky and the rest of the Provisional Government are portrayed as wanting to be this. In the film Kerensky is shown to want to be dictator. See CallBack above.
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* RepeatCut: Kerensky climbs the same flight of stairs over and over again as the various titles and offices he assumed in 1917 flash by the screen. This is part of the theme of Kerensky grasping for power and dictatorship.
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* EnsembleCast: Like Eisenstein's other propaganda films, ''October'' shows the revolution as a collective endeavor, with no protagist and little attempt at characterization for anyone save maybe the BigBad, Kerensky. At the time of release the film attracted criticism from Soviets disappointed with the [[FlatCharacter flat characterization]] of Lenin.
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* MeetTheNewBoss: Kerensky and the rest of the Provisional Government are portrayed as wanting to be this.
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* IronicJuxtaposition: The film takes a dim view of the "Women's Battalion of Death". Two of the women soldiers are shown going through military drill, right in front of a statue of a mother and child.
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* ChehkovsGunman: In a meta sense, anyway. Someone who looks like Stalin is sitting at Lenin's council in October.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: As propaganda films go, it isn't too terribly inaccurate.
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* ChehkovsGunman: In a meta sense, anyway. Someone who looks like Stalin is sitting at Lenin's council in October.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Lot of arguing between the socialist left on how to proceed. The Mensheviks are portrayed as weak and vacillating, in contrast to the brave, decisive Bolsheviks. One gag features a Menshevik speaker getting up at a meeting and urging caution, while an audience member falls asleep, and angels play harps in the background.
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''October'' is a 1928 silent film from the [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]], directed by Creator/SergeiEisenstein. In foreign markets it was given the longer title ''October: Ten Days That Shook the World'', to tie in with the account of the Russian Revolution written by John Reed. It tells the story of the Russian Revolution of 1917, starting with the overthrow of the monarchy, continuing through the unrest of the July Days, and ending with RedOctober and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks.
Unlike Eisenstein's previous film, ''Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin'', ''October'' was received relatively poorly both at home and abroad, but it has been VindicatedByHistory and is now regarded as one of his classics.
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* AmazonBrigade: The "Women's Battalion of Death", an all-female unit that was part of the doomed defense of the Winter Palace against the Bolsheviks. TruthInTelevision.
* AmbiguouslyGay: The women of the Women's Battalion of Death seem to be lesbians, seeing as how they walk around arm-in-arm after combat drills.
* AnachronismStew: That statue that is pulled down at the start of the film was in Moscow, not Petrograd, and it was pulled down in 1921.
* CallBack: The film suggests that Kerensky is trying to establish himself as dictator by replaying in reverse the toppling of the Alexander III statue, so that it reassembles itself.
* ContrastMontage: Russian Orthodox icons are contrasted against Buddhist statues, pagan carvings, and other religions icons in the "masks of the gods" sequence, to illustrate that all religions are the same.
* TheCoup: The successful Bolshevik takeover in RedOctober.
* DemotedToExtra / RealLifeWritesThePlot: Leon Trotsky lost the struggle for power and was exiled during the production of this film. Consequently, quite a bit of material related to Trotsky was deleted. He is only shown briefly in a couple of scenes, and only mentioned by name once, when he is said to be urging caution right before the Bolshevik seizure of power.
* DirtyCoward: Kerensky abandons his cabinet, fleeing the capital in an American embassy car.
* {{Eagleland}}: Eisenstein apparently had a Flavor 2 view, as he takes care to show that the car whisking Kerensky away is flying an American flag.
* InMediasRes: Eisenstein wastes no time dramatizing the lead-up to revolution, but instead hits the ground running with the toppling of a statue of Alexander III and the overthrow of the monarchy in February.
* KubrickStare: How Alexander Kerensky, leader of the Provisional Government and opponent of the Bolsheviks, is introduced.
* MeetTheNewBoss: Kerensky and the rest of the Provisional Government are portrayed as wanting to be this.
* {{Montages}}: Eisenstein more or less invented these. The most famous montage in this film is the scene where frames of a soldier firing a machine gun are intercut with closeups of the machine gun, spitting lead.
* RebelLeader: See that bald guy, arriving at the Finland Station on April 3, 1917? He sure can give a speech.
* ThatRussianSquatDance: Seen when the Bolshevik operatives infiltrate Kornilov's army and make friends. This leads to the failure of Kornilov's coup.
* YouShallNotPass: "Kornilov shall not pass", say the workers defending the revolution against a coup attempt by monarchist General Kornilov.
Unlike Eisenstein's previous film, ''Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin'', ''October'' was received relatively poorly both at home and abroad, but it has been VindicatedByHistory and is now regarded as one of his classics.
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* AmazonBrigade: The "Women's Battalion of Death", an all-female unit that was part of the doomed defense of the Winter Palace against the Bolsheviks. TruthInTelevision.
* AmbiguouslyGay: The women of the Women's Battalion of Death seem to be lesbians, seeing as how they walk around arm-in-arm after combat drills.
* AnachronismStew: That statue that is pulled down at the start of the film was in Moscow, not Petrograd, and it was pulled down in 1921.
* CallBack: The film suggests that Kerensky is trying to establish himself as dictator by replaying in reverse the toppling of the Alexander III statue, so that it reassembles itself.
* ContrastMontage: Russian Orthodox icons are contrasted against Buddhist statues, pagan carvings, and other religions icons in the "masks of the gods" sequence, to illustrate that all religions are the same.
* TheCoup: The successful Bolshevik takeover in RedOctober.
* DemotedToExtra / RealLifeWritesThePlot: Leon Trotsky lost the struggle for power and was exiled during the production of this film. Consequently, quite a bit of material related to Trotsky was deleted. He is only shown briefly in a couple of scenes, and only mentioned by name once, when he is said to be urging caution right before the Bolshevik seizure of power.
* DirtyCoward: Kerensky abandons his cabinet, fleeing the capital in an American embassy car.
* {{Eagleland}}: Eisenstein apparently had a Flavor 2 view, as he takes care to show that the car whisking Kerensky away is flying an American flag.
* InMediasRes: Eisenstein wastes no time dramatizing the lead-up to revolution, but instead hits the ground running with the toppling of a statue of Alexander III and the overthrow of the monarchy in February.
* KubrickStare: How Alexander Kerensky, leader of the Provisional Government and opponent of the Bolsheviks, is introduced.
* MeetTheNewBoss: Kerensky and the rest of the Provisional Government are portrayed as wanting to be this.
* {{Montages}}: Eisenstein more or less invented these. The most famous montage in this film is the scene where frames of a soldier firing a machine gun are intercut with closeups of the machine gun, spitting lead.
* RebelLeader: See that bald guy, arriving at the Finland Station on April 3, 1917? He sure can give a speech.
* ThatRussianSquatDance: Seen when the Bolshevik operatives infiltrate Kornilov's army and make friends. This leads to the failure of Kornilov's coup.
* YouShallNotPass: "Kornilov shall not pass", say the workers defending the revolution against a coup attempt by monarchist General Kornilov.
