October (BFI Film Classics)

In this ebook, Richard Taylor asks to what quantity the movie can lay declare to "authentic" historical past. He then examines October's courting to the politics of the interval and explains the speculation and its software, in addition to putting October within the wider context of Eisenstein's career.

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