October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov, Sovkino, 1928, for the tenth anniversary. The July days, the Finland Station, the Winter Palace taken at night, Tisse shooting extras in the real rooms. After Trotsky's fall, shots of him were cut, a fact every archive note repeats. The gods montage, idols of every faith slammed together, is the theory lesson people still assign. Gosfilmofond and foreign museums hold the variant lengths: history restaged as cutting, then recut by politics.