Russian Revolution - Cultural Portrayal

Cultural Portrayal

The Russian Revolution has been portrayed in several films.

  • Arsenal ' (IMDB profile). Written and directed by Aleksandr Dovzhenko.
  • Konets Sankt-Peterburga AKA The End of Saint Petersburg (IMDB profile).
  • Lenin v 1918 godu AKA Lenin in 1918 (IMDB profile). Directed by Mikhail Romm and E. Aron (co-director).
  • October: Ten Days That Shook the World (IMDB profile). Directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov. Runtimes: Sweden:104 min, USA:95 min. Country: Soviet Union. Black and White. Silent. 1927.
  • The End of Saint Petersburg, directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, USSR, 1927.
  • Reds (IMDB profile). Directed by Warren Beatty, 1981. It is based on the book Ten Days that Shook the World.
  • Anastasia (IMDB profile), an American animated feature, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, 1997.
  • Doctor Zhivago, an American drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean, 1965, and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak.
  • The White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1926. Partially autobiographical novel, portraying the life of one family torn apart by uncertainty of the Civil War times. Also, Dni Turbinykh (IMDB profile), 1976 – film based on the novel.

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