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'Ten days that shook the world'

October 1917 (1928) a.k.a Oktyabr is on today only, at the Gaborone Film Society, 7 pm at the A/V Centre at Maru a Pula School. At 6:30 pm before the film starts there will be a reception by the Russian Embassy. It will be followed by "Earth" on April 12, and on the April 19, the Maitisong Festival film, Le Concert (a joint French, Russian and Romanian movie). The fourth film in the festival is Ashik Kerib on April 26.

Sergei M. Eisenstein's third film, that is also known as Ten days that shook the world, is on eight months of the Bolshevik Revolution in Petrograd from February through October 1917.

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