SOVIET PROPAGANDA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 158, 24 September 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

SOVIET PROPAGANDA

REVOLUTIONARY FILM STORMING WINTER PALACE DETAILS of the progress of the great new Soviet film, “Ten Days that Moved the World,” now approaching completion in Leningrad, are being followed with the utmost attention by German producers. Mr. Eisenstein, the director, is the man who made the “Potemkin” film, and he himself has expressed the opinion that “Ten Days” is a work of infinitely higher standing. This film, which will be released on the tenth anniversary of the storming of the Winter Palace in October, 1017, will be historically accurate down to the most insignificant detail. Men have been found, in a search throughout Russia, who resemble Lenin, Kerenski, and the other figures of the October revolution, so exactly as to be their living images when dressed for the part. In the street scenes the various party committees have been called upon to provide the exact details of where the various divisions of soldiers, sailors,

and working men w r ere stationed. The identical cruiser Aurora, that fired upon the city, was towed up the Neva, and bombarded Leningrad in the same way as Petrograd was bombarded, the only difference being that this time blank cartridges were used. Eisenstein’s methods are so realistic that the days were spent in the various Soviet bureaux of Leningrad collecting scraps of paper and pieces of chalk of the kind which witnesses declare to have strewn the floors of the Smolna Institute when the new Government moved into it*