The Taking of the Winter Palace

Overview

Screen version of a mass performance held on November 7, 1920 on Palace Square with the participation of Proletkult artists and a crowd of several thousand people. The performance reproduced the events of the October coup d'état. Two platforms were built on Palace Square - "white" and "red".

Directed by Nicolas Evreinoff, Leonid Vivyen, Nikolai Misheyev, Konstantin Derzhavin, Alexander Kugel, Boris Svetlov, Nikolay Petrov

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