Event

Representing Revolution: October in Film

3rd Aug 2017

Marking the Centenary of the October Revolution

 

Representing Revolution

Friday 27 October – Sunday 29 October 2017

Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Dumfries, Scotland

 

A weekend of film and discussion exploring how the October Revolution has been represented in a selection of American, British, French and Russian (Soviet) films, featuring

 

Warren Beatty’s Reds (1981)

Sergei Eisenstein’s October (1928)

David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago (1965/6)

Chris Marker’s The Last Bolshevik (1993)

Nikita Mikhalkov’s At Home Among Strangers (1974)

Vsevelod Pudovkin’s The End of St Petersburg (1927)

 

Speakers include Professor John Foster (Glasgow), Professor Lesley Milne (Nottingham), Dr David Archibald (Glasgow) & Dr Benjamin Franks (Glasgow).

 

For more information contact the RBCFT box office on 01387 264808 or via www.rbcft.co.uk  For a free programme email russia1917@phonecoop.coop  
 

 

Representing Revolution

A weekend of film to mark the centenary of the October Revolution

Friday 27 October – Sunday 29 October 2017

Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Dumfries, Scotland

russia1917@phonecoop.coop