Summary: Anglo-Russian documentary telling the story of the Russian Revolution, using contemporary film, voice-over narration and (acknowledged) scenes from Eisenstein.
Description: Documentary begins with archive footage of Tsar, Nicholas II, and family - William Gerhardie describes meeting them. Poverty and protest in Russia - strikes. Lenin's early life: childhood, pledge to avenge death of agitator brother, marriage, exile to Siberia, his newspaper "Iskra" ("The Spark"). Mrs Zelda Coates recalls Lenin's visit to London. Bloody Sunday 1905 - protesters shot. Pictures of revolutionary leaders. 1911 - strikes in goldfields. 1914 - assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo; start of War. Nicholas on the battlefront. Alexandra and Rasputin. 1916 General Strike. Abdication of Nicholas, setting up of provisional government - Gerhardie describes events. Rise of Kerensky. Return of Lenin and Trotsky to Saint Petersburg. Kornilov's attempted coup. The Bolshevik Rising, October 1917. Commissar of Aurora tells of his attack on Winter Palace. Kerensky's government overthrown. "In only ten days the revolution had transformed Russia, and had shaken the world". Colour footage of Red Square, Moscow, fifty years later; people queuing to enter Lenin's tomb. The Russians have seen much change since then. "Who knows where the road they began to travel in 1917 will finally lead them ... and us".
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Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:IWM 1092
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM: PROJECTION PRINT ONLY - NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE
Featured Period:1919-1938
Production Date:1967-11-06
Production Country: GB
USSR
Production Details: Novosti (Production sponsor)
Granada Television (Production sponsor)
Granada Television (Production company)
Novosti (Production company)
Alexandrov, Grigori (Production individual)
Swallow, Norman (Production individual)
Darlow, Michael (Production individual)
Samoilovitch, Tamara (Production individual)
Alexandrov, Grigori (Production individual)
Granger, Derek (Production individual)
Murphy, Michael (Production individual)
Swallow, Norman (Production individual)
Ray, John (Production individual)
Phillips, Phil (Production individual)
Spilny, Yuri (Production individual)
Naden, David (Production individual)
Seymour, Judy (Production individual)
Ottoni, Filippo (Production individual)
Smith, Martin (Production individual)
Nott, Josephine (Production individual)
Babushkin, Victor (Production individual)
Ryan, Ted (Production individual)
Bounin, Revol (Production individual)
State Film Orchestra of the USSR (Production individual)
Khachaturian, Emin (Production individual)
Welles, Orson (Production cast)
Jefford, Barbara (Production cast)
Burden, Hugh (Production cast)
Stephens, Robert (Production cast)
Suzman, Janet (Production cast)
Brown, A J (Production cast)
Jones, Rick (Production cast)
March, David (Production cast)
Shelley, Norman (Production cast)
Woodvine, John1929-07-21 (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia (person)
Alexandra, Tsarina of Russia (person)
Gerhardie, William A (person)
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (person)
Krupskaya, Nadezhda K (person)
Coates, Zelda (person)
Franz Ferdinand (Archduke) (person)
Rasputin, Grigori Yefimovich (person)
TROTSKY, LEON (person)
Kerensky, Alexander Fyodorovich (person)
Kornilov, Lavr Georgievich (person)
Keywords: 08/3(47) [1917 October Revolution] (event)
Russia & Moscow <Red Square> (geography)
Russia & Petrograd (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 4
Footage: 7228 ft; Running time: 71 mins
