Composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his first film score for this silent movie. He hurriedly wrote about 90 minutes of music.
A few weeks before the premiere in March 1929, Soviet censors cut several scenes. This led to Shostakovich's score being dropped entirely, perhaps because it no longer matched the edited film, or because his music was considered too radical.
When the defeated [right-wing bourgeois] nationalist government fled, to the royal Palace of Versailles, the workers took over large areas of central Paris and organised a Commune under the red flag, with this action by the left-leaning working-class, this led to the world's first attempt at a communist government.
Debut of actress Yelena Kuzmina.
Tamara Makarova's debut.