Dramatizes, in an official Soviet government release, the rise of the Red Army and the revolution that they eventually won.
Production
Massive crowd scenes with actual Red Army soldiers as extras.
Costume
Lenin's goatee deserves its own billing—impeccably maintained.
Direction
Ordynsky stages battles like socialist realist paintings in motion.
Director
Vasili Ordynsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Kremlin demanded 47 script changes; director Ordynsky smuggled his preferred ending through by claiming it was 'historically inevitable.'
Released during Brezhnev's stagnation era, the film's revolutionary fervor accidentally mirrored growing dissent—audiences reportedly cheered the rebels more nervously than intended.
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