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October AKA Oktyabr AKA October 1917 AKA Ten Days That Shook the World (1928)
Recounting of the 1917 Russian Revolution to commemorate the tenth anniversary.Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Year of Production: 1927
OVERALL: Draw-
OVERALL: Draw
Tartan for the Russian intertitles.
GENERAL NOTES:
The film originally ran 138 minutes for its 1927 commemorative screening but was trimmed down to 102 minutes for commercial release in 1928. It was restored to 102 minutes in 1966 by Eisenstein associate Grigori Alexandrov who prepared a "sound version" that retained intertitles but added some sound effects and crowd noises as well as a synchronized soundtrack by Dmitri Shostakovich. -
CUTS:
- R1 America- Image Entertainment - No cuts - 1990 Corinth Films version of the 1966 sound version with English intertitles (102:33 NTSC) with 1:33 text introduction.
- R1 Sergei Eisenstein Double Feature America- Corinth Films - No cuts - 1990 Corinth Films version of the 1966 sound version with English intertitles (102:33 NTSC) with 1:33 text introduction.
- R2 Sergei Eisenstein Volume 1 United Kingdom- Palisades Tartan - No cuts - 1966 sound version (99:22 PAL).
- R4 Australia- Force Video - No cuts - 1966 sound version (102:20 NTSC-to-PAL).
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