Battleship Potemkin (1925)

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75 min - Drama | History - 24 December 1925 (Soviet Union)

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A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre.

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Battleship Potemkin -- Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece is one of the most influential silent film of all time. In this edition, dozens of missing shots have been replaced and all 146 title cards restored to Eisenstein's specifications. Edmund Meisel's definitive 1926 orchestral score returns this masterwork to a form as close to its creator's bold vision as has been seen since the film's triumphant 1925 Moscow premiere.

Battleship Potemkin -- Potemkin has been called one of the most influential films of all time, and was named the greatest film of all time at the World's Fair at Brussels, Belgium, in 1958.

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Cast

Credited cast:
	Aleksandr Antonov	...	Grigory Vakulinchuk - Bolshevik Sailor
	Vladimir Barsky	...	Commander Golikov
	Grigori Aleksandrov	...	Chief Officer Giliarovsky
	Ivan Bobrov	...	Young Sailor Flogged While Sleeping (as I. Bobrov)
	Mikhail Gomorov	...	Militant Sailor
	Aleksandr Levshin	...	Petty Officer
	N. Poltavtseva	...	Woman With Pince-nez
	Konstantin Feldman	...	Student Agitator
	Prokopenko	...	Mother Carrying Wounded Boy
	A. Glauberman	...	Wounded Boy
	Beatrice Vitoldi	...	Woman With Baby Carriage
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Brodsky	...	Student
	Julia Eisenstein	...	Woman with Food for Sailors
	Sergei M. Eisenstein	...	Odessa Citizen
	Andrei Fajt	...	Recruit (as A. Fait)

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Storyline

Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa. Written by Konstantin Dlutskii <ked@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>

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Drama | History

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Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian (intertitles)

Release Date:

24 December 1925 (Soviet Union) See more »

Also Known As:

El acorazado Potemkin See more »

Filming Locations:

Alupka, Crimea, Ukraine See more »

Box Office

Gross:

$50,970 (USA) (15 January 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Goskino See more »

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Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.25 : 1

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Trivia

Charles Chaplin said it was his favorite movie. See more »

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: Vakulinchuk is breathing slightly as his body lies in state. See more »

Connections

Featured in Pas de repos pour Billy Brakko (1984) See more »