Nikolai Evreinov, Storming of the Winter Palace (1920)
“The Missing Siege” Film Screenings
10,000 actors, dancers, and circus performers, as well as a convoy of armored cars and tanks presented in and around the real Winter Palace in Petrograd. “The Storming of the Winter Palace” is a filmed reenactment of the October Revolution in Petrograd, organized by Nikolai Evreinov to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of the revolution. This mass spectacle- referred to by many as a boldly grotesque avant-garde enterprise - created a new kind of theater, agit-drama: telling the viewer about the creation of the event and spreading political propaganda at the same time. The director worked together with Yuri Annenkov, graphic artist and painter and Dimitri Tiomkin who later became an Oscar-winning Hollywood composer.
This screening is the first event in THE MISSING SIEGE film series that is part of THE TRACES OF REVOLUTIONS program series. In the framework of the one-year program series WHAT’S LEFT, which aims to revisit the complex socialist ideological and visual legacy in the year marked by the centennial of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The screening is introduced by Yuri Tsivian (University of Chicago) and Daria Khitrova (Harvard University).
Free admission.
Limited seats are available on a first come first served basis.
The films will be screened in Russian with English subtitles. The program is in English.
In the framework of the “The Traces of the Revolution” program series that is part of the one-year program series “What's Left?”.