Snow Leopard Review of Revolution in Russia

Revolution in Russia (1906)

Interesting Dramatization, As Long As You're Familiar With the Events

[16 October 2002]

This is an interesting dramatization of the Odessa revolution, an event which is more familiar to movie fans through Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin". This much shorter film was made with the events still fresh in everyone's memory, and thus it does not explain much of the action, assuming that the audience knows most of what is going on. For that reason, if you watch it now, you probably need to be already familiar with the historical events in order to follow what is taking place. While quite brief and relatively straightforward, it does create a decent sense of action, especially given the cinematic limitations of the time.