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Release Date: 1925

Cast: Konstantin Feldman, Grigori Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Antonov, N. Poltavseva, Alexander Antonov, Prokopenko, Mikhail Gomorov, Aleksandr Levshin, Beatrice Vitoldi, Vladimir Barsky, Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrow ...MORE

Cast: Konstantin Feldman, Grigori Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Antonov, N. Poltavseva, Alexander Antonov, Prokopenko, Mikhail Gomorov, Aleksandr Levshin, Beatrice Vitoldi, Vladimir Barsky, Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrow, Nikolai Lewtschenko, Ivan Bobrov, A. Glauberman, N. Poltavtseva, Julia Eisenstein ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Silent film, Indie, World cinema, History, Black-and-white, Propaganda, War film, Political drama

Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime. Battleship Potemkin has been called one of the most influential propaganda films of all time, and was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. The film is composed of five... MORE

Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime. Battleship Potemkin has been called one of the most influential propaganda films of all time, and was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. The film is composed of five episodes: Eisenstein wrote the film as a revolutionary propaganda film, but also used it to test his theories of "montage". The revolutionary Soviet filmmakers of the Kuleshov school of filmmaking were experimenting with the effect of film editing on audiences, and Eisenstein attempted to edit the film in such a way as to produce the greatest emotional response, so that the viewer would feel sympathy for the rebellious sailors of the Battleship Potemkin and hatred for their cruel overlords. In the manner of most propaganda, the characterization is simple, so that the audience could clearly see with whom they should LESS