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Apr 2, 2024 · Summary. A Gentleman in Moscow melds fiction with real history, centering around the Russian Revolution of 1917 for authenticity. Ewan McGregor stars as Count Rostov, who voluntarily returns to Russia amid the violent Bolshevik Revolution.
- October: Ten Days That Shook The World, 1927
- Chapaev, 1934
- Lenin in October, 1937
- The Flight, 1970
- Sunstroke, 2014
- Angels of The Revolution, 2014
- Read More: Who Is to Blame For The 1917 Russian Revolution?
This film is the final part of director Sergei Eisenstein's trilogy. He admitted that the revolution had "given him the most precious of all things: It made him an artist." The revolutionary triptych began with his debut, Strike, and continued with Battleship Potemkin about a sailors' rebellion in 1905. Octoberis the cinegrapic quintessence of the ...
This is an adventure film by the Vasiliev brothers about self-sacrificing Red Army commander Vasily Chapaev, who with his friends Petka and Anka fought the White Guard. The film is an illustration of the Russian Civil War and bygone heroes. The heroic tale of Chapaev was a sensation adored by viewers and critics, and received a prize at the first M...
Shot 20 years after the revolution, Mikhail Romm's film concentrates on the personality of Vladimir Lenin – a funny neurotic before turning out to be the genius of the revolution. In the opinion of his contemporaries, actor Boris Schukin played the revolution's leader so virtuously that viewers stood up and applauded when he appeared on screen – it...
This two-part film based on the works of Mikhail Bulgakov (primarily his play Flight and the novel The White Guard) has an outstanding cast headed by Lyudmila Savelyeva (Natasha Rostova in Sergei Bondarchuk's Oscar-winning War and Peace, 1969) and Alexei Batalov (Gosha from the Oscar-winning Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears, 1980). Having participat...
This film by Oscar-winner Nikita Mikhalkov, which is based on the eponymous story by Ivan Bunin and his diaries Cursed Days, in which the author depicts the revolution as a catastrophe, divided Russian society. The plot takes place in the fall of 1920 when an unnamed captain from the remnants of the czarist army finds himself in a Bolshevik filtrat...
This is an unusual story of the consequences of the revolution filmed by Venetian Film Festival-winner Alexei Fedorchenko (First on the Moon, Silent Souls). It's about a group of revolutionaries who come to the taiga to "enlighten" the indigenous peoples in the name of art. Fedorchenko's screen heroes are based on 1920s avant-garde artists: Painter...
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1. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) 1927 1h 35m. 7.4 (8.5K) Rate. A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown. Director Grigoriy Aleksandrov Sergei Eisenstein Stars Boris Livanov Nikolay Popov Vasili Nikandrov. 2. Knight Without Armor.
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On the practical side, he was the mastermind behind the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917, and was totally ruthless during the ensuing Civil War. As an idealist, he was committed to the pursuit of international revolution, but created many political enemies.
Vladimir Lenin st. petersburg 1917 Russian Revolution. A century ago, the radical Bolshevik party captured Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), thus beginning the 70-year period of Communist...
October 10, 2017. Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
The story of Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky and the events that changed history forever. Stream this acclaimed Russian Revolution film in the US and Canada.
