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The filming of the assault on the Winter Palace required 11,000 extras, and the lighting needs left the rest of the city blacked out.
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Eisenstein had to remove most of the footage featuring Trotsky. The re-editing caused the film to be reduced to a little over three quarters of its intended length.
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More people were injured reproducing the storming of the Winter Palace than were hurt in the Bolsheviks' actual takeover of the building. '(Source: Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore)'
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Included among the '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die', edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
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