Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
Much of the montage is reductive and static, but some of the action scenes are genuinely stirring -- when he wasn't editorializing, the man really could cut film.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
The film remains an interesting oddity rather than entertaining or illuminating. Indeed, watching it today can seem hard work.