A charming and inventive film that humanizes the participants of the October Revolution, colored through a child's imagination and misunderstanding of the story he was told (in this, it shares something with the Brumberg sisters' Big Troubles). Only a few years later, filming this sort of script in a newly-independent Ukraine (with a very different official foundational story) would be unthinkable. By the way, I share the child's confusion at the end: why, indeed, could that horse could speak French?