• Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  • Release Year: 1929
  • Production Country: Soviet Union
  • Language: Silent

Arsenal (January Uprising in Kiev in 1918)

Description

The Russian Empire is disintegrating and the Bolsheviks are everywhere, including in the newly declared Ukrainian state. Former soldier-turned-revolutionary Tymosh and his troops have set up their headquarters at the arsenal in Kiev and stand ready to take on the military and any others who might stand in the way of the people's victory in Ukraine.

Themes

World War I (1914 – 1918), Russian Civil War (1917 – 1923), Bolshevik Revolution (1917 – 1921), Ukrainian–Soviet War (1917 – 1921), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917 – 1921), Kiev Arsenal January Uprising (29 January 1918 – 4 February 1918), Propaganda, Narrative, Communism, Revolutions and rebellions, Heroic self sacrifice, Soviet Union (U.S.S.R. 1922 – 1991)