Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin
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1h 11m
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein • 1926 • USSR/Russia
A founding masterpiece of silent cinema, studied the world over for its radical montage techniques and still shocking today, Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin was originally conceived as part of a cycle of films commemorating the revolutionary events of 1905. Recreating a sailor’s rebellion in the Black Sea fleet and the subsequent massacre of civilians of Odessa, the film was banned outright in many countries outside Soviet Russia. A true monument of the Soviet avant-garde.
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN • БРОНЕНОСЕЦ «ПОТЕМЬКИН»
Written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein
Cinematography by Eduard Tisse
Music by Max Reinhardt & the Instant Orchestra
Starring: Grigori Aleksandrov, Vladimir Barksy, Aleksandr Antonov
Silent with Russian intertitles and English subtitles
Voted Greatest Film of All Time at the Brussels World Fair, 1958
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