Revolution in Russia
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About Revolution in Russia
A ship's crew, tired of mistreatment, mutinies and takes the vessel. Ashore, a sailor killed in the mutiny is treated as a martyr, and the city rises. The authorities then put the revolt down by force. Lucien Nonguet staged the scenes from the 1905 rising in Odessa, including the Potemkin mutiny, within months of the events.
Cast & crew
More about Revolution in Russia
Nonguet directed the Pathé short. French titles include La révolution en Russie, Les événements d'Odessa, and La révolte du cuirassé Potemkine. English release titles are Revolution in Russia and Revolution in Odessa. Wikidata gives the length as 4 minutes and a publication year of 1906. English Wikipedia dates the film 1905.
Themes
Background
A French reconstruction of the 1905 Potemkin mutiny and the Odessa rising, released while those events were recent.
Making
Pathé had Nonguet restage the Odessa mutiny as a news-style fiction short while the 1905 revolution was still current.
Notes
- The events are the ones Sergei Eisenstein filmed twenty years later in Battleship Potemkin (1925).
- No cast list is given in the available notes.
Scenes
- The crew seizes the ship.
- The dead sailor is carried as a martyr and the city rises.
