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Introducing the Soviet Avant-Garde
Battleship Potemkin
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8m 23s
Klassiki curator Sam Goff introduces viewers to the fascinating world of the Soviet avant-garde. In the 1920s and ‘30s, filmmakers like Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov combined radical politics with groundbreaking innovations in film theory and practice to produce some of the most influential films of all time – although they would soon find themselves on the wrong side of a shifting political climate.