After the success of Strike (1924), Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a film commemorating the uprising of 1905. Eisenstein's scenario, boiled down from what was to have been a multipart epic of the occasion, focussed on the crew of the battleship Potemkin. Fed up with the extreme cruelties of .. Read more
| Starring | Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov |
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| Director | Sergei Eisenstein |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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After the success of Strike (1924), Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a film commemorating the uprising of 1905. Eisenstein's scenario, boiled down from what was to have been a multipart epic of the occasion, focussed on the crew of the battleship Potemkin. Fed up with the extreme cruelties of their officers and their maggot-ridden meat rations, the sailors stage a violent mutiny. This, in turn, sparks an abortive citizens' revolt against the Czarist regime. The film's centerpiece is staged on the Odessa Steps, where in 1905 the Czar's Cossacks methodically shot down rioters and innocent bystanders alike. To Eisenstein, this single bloody incident was the crucible of the successful 1917 Bolshevik revolution, and the result was the Odessa Steps sequence, which is often considered the most famous sequence ever filmed; it is certainly one of the most imitated, perhaps most overtly by Brian De Palma in The Untouchables (1987). This triumph of Eisenstein's rhythmic editing technique occurs in the middle of film, not as the climax, as more current film structure might do it. All the actors in the film were amateurs, selected by Eisenstein because of their rightness as types for their roles. Pictorial quality varies from print to print, but even in a duped-down version, Battleship Potemkin is must-see cinema.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov |
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| Director | Sergei Eisenstein |
| Studio | EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 14 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Russian |
| Released | Production year: 1925 To Rent: DVD: 17 Jan 2000 |
A textbook cinema classic, and masterpiece of creative editing, especially in the famous Odessa Steps sequence in which innocent civilians are mown down in the bloodshed; the happenings of a minute are drawn into five by frenzied cross-cutting. The film c
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Left of the middle
I was interested in this film as it continually crops up in top 100 lists. The film is about an uprising in Russia during the first world war that begins on the... read more »
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Great Film Historic Classic
This is a really good film i though black and white silent must be rubbish but now i know why critics describe it as an all time classic!
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the glory and splendour of old cinema
highly pitched throughout, eisentein's masterpiece boasts an incredible score which synchronizes with the film in the most organic mutual symbiosis. it is a... read more »
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Celebrating the revolution back in the USSR
Highly rated for its innovative use of film montage this movie is regularly rated amongst the top 10 films of all time. Propaganda for the early Soviet Union ... read more »
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