The Soviet Revolution in all its glory as the events of Red October unfold on an epic scale. The storming of the Winter Palace in Leningrad is one of the great set pieces of cinema history. Eisenstien practicaly invented the art of editing and this is the movie in which he did it! Brilliant.
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STRIKE (1924)
Certification15 Our Rating
The first of Eisenstein's classic series of films. The story of a revolt in a factory and its murderous suppression contains all the elements that went into his later films - the crowd masses, the mosaic of detail, the caricatures, faces of love, breathless montage and ferocious images of cruelty.
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THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS (1978)
Certification12 Our Rating
Olmi's film is a fascinating study of life within the peasant community in rural Italy at the turn of the century, a hand to mouth existence that, while beautifully observed and visualised, is at no point glorified or demonised. 'The Tree of the Wooden Clogs', with its naturalistic camera work and non-professional cast, is an unassuming mesmerising work with a strong Marxist message.
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