October (Ten Days That Shook the World) (Октябрь)

OCTOBER

A SOVKINO Production 1927-1928

To the Petrograd proletariat, the primary creators of the October Revolution,

we dedicate our film.

Commissioned by the October Jubilee Commission

of the Presidium of the USSR Central Executive Committee

Headed by N.I. Podvoisky

Written and Directed by

S.M. EISENSTEIN and G.V. ALEKSANDROV

Director of Photography Eduard TISSE

Only the iron leadership of the Communist Party

can guarantee the victory of the popular masses.

To our most sovereign great Tsar,

the Emperor Aleksandr Aleksandrovich.

FEBRUARY

To all! To all! To all!

To all!

TO ALL!

May the Provisional Government have a long life!

To all! To all! To all!

TO ALL?

It means...

Brother!

Brother!

The Provisional Government...

shall be fully observing the obligations

undertook in respect of our allies.

A POUND

HALF A POUND

QUARTER OF A POUND

EIGHTH OF A POUND

Everything as before.

Hunger and War.

But -

at Finland Station.

April 3rd

HE.

ULYANOV

LENIN

Down with the Provisional Government!

All power to the Soviets!

Long live the Socialist Revolution!

Socialist, not bourgeois...

From capitalist ministers

no peace

no bread

no earth.

"The July Days".

Down with the capitalist ministers!

Down with the Provisional Government!

Endless mass meetings took place at the Kshesinskaya Mansion.

The uprising is premature!

A spontaneous uprising is doomed to failure!

The Bolsheviks call for a peaceful demonstration.

Kronstadt men.

At the right time the Party will lead you.

At the corner of Sadovaya and Nevsky.

Where

the "evening" and "news"

"time" are.

The editorial office of "The Evening Time" newspaper

Saving the banner

A Bolshevik!

The government ordered

to raise bridges

cutting off the working-class districts from the center.

The victors were sinking the Bolshevist "Pravda".

Machinegun regiment.

For solidarity with the workers...

"Betrayers"

Traitors!

Bolsheviks!

Headquarters of a military organization (Bolsheviks)

Petrograd Committee of the Bolshevik Party.

DICTATOR

Supreme Commanders -

Army and Navy

Prime Minister

etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

The hope of the country and the revolution -

A.F. Kerensky.

The Tsar's lackeys.

Wow! WHAT a democrat.

The democrat at the Tsar's gate.

Betrayers!

"Traitors"

Bolsheviks.

In hiding.

Lenin in a shanty.

In Alexandra Fyodorovna's apartment.

Alexander Fyodorovich

In the private library of Nicholas II.

Order on the renewal of capital punishment.

The Revolution is in danger!

General

Kornilov

is advancing.

Everybody to the defense of Petrograd!

Kornilov is advancing!

In the name of God and Motherland.

In the name of

GOD.

In the name of

MOTHERLAND.

HURRAY!

HURRAY!

HURRAY!

General Kornilov

Two Bonapartes.

Kornilov is advancing

with a savage division

with English tanks.

And the government?

The government is impotent.

We won't let the general through!

They forced the government to open the prisons.

"Betrayers"

"Traitors"

Bolsheviks.

The government opened the arsenal.

The Petrograd proletariat.

Took the defense in their hands.

General HQ of defense.

SMOLNY

"Betrayers"

"Traitors"

Bolsheviks

Savage Division

A Bolshevik leaflet...

spoke in their language.

Bread!

Peace!

Land!

Brotherhood!

They fraternized.

And

General Kornilov was arrested.

Proletarian, learn to use the rifle!

The Petrograd Soviet was building armed forces.

The Petrograd Committee was forging a fighting will.

On October 10th

the Bolshevist Central Committee

was deciding the question of armed uprising.

The 2nd Congress of Soviets was to be opened on October 25.

On its agenda will be the question of power.

Early on the 24th.

On the 25th.

The Party organized the uprising staff.

Military Revolutionary Committee

Plan of St. Petersburg and its environs.

On the night of the 25th.

Making a stock.

On the morning of the 25th.

Called up by the Military Revolutionary Committee.

Entering the city for a decisive battle...

the cruiser "Aurora".

The city bridges are raised again.