Battleship Potemkin
This landmark film was planned by the Soviet Central Committee to coincide with the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution. The film was developed by 27-year-old Sergei Eisenstein from less than one page of script from a planned eight-part epic that was intended to chronicle a large number of revolutionary actions. Starting with the Potemkin's crew's refusal to eat maggot-infested meat, the mutiny develops and their leader Vakulinchuk is shot by a senior officer. The officers are overthrown and when the Potemkin docks at Odessa, crowds appear from all directions to take up the cause of the dead sailor and open rebellion ensues. What became the most celebrated sequence in world cinema history follows as the Czarist soldiers fire on the crowds thronging down the Odessa steps; the broad newsreel-like sequences being inter-cut with close-ups of the harrowing details.
Year: 1925
Genre: Alice's 500 Greatest Films, Russian Cinema, Paul's Favourites, Silent Films, Classic Cinema, Theo's Favourites
Country: Russia
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Starring: Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky
Duration: 69 Minutes
Rating: PG
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