Déjà Vu
Déjà Vu

Summary/Abstract: Images that we know from the media of a mob attacking the Capitol on January 6, 2021 revoke scenes from films about revolutions, like La Marseillaise (1938) by Jean Renoir, La Révolution française (1989) by Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron, or Reds (1981) by Warren Beatty. None of these scenes has the power of Sergei Eisenstein’s October (1928). As we know, the way the attack on the Winter Palace is depicted by Eisenstein has little to do with real events, but it has shaped the collective vision of the October Revolution for decades. It also became a simulacrum for what happened in Washington, DC.

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