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Battleship Potemkin

Original title: Bronenosets Potemkin
  • 19251925
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 6m
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7.9/10
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Battleship Potemkin (1925)
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre.
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In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration ... Read allIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
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7.9/10
59K
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    • Sergei Eisenstein
  • Writers
    • Nina Agadzhanova(script by)
    • Sergei Eisenstein(re-writes)
    • Grigoriy Aleksandrov(re-writes)
  • Stars
    • Aleksandr Antonov
    • Vladimir Barskiy
    • Grigoriy Aleksandrov
    • Sergei Eisenstein
  • Writers
    • Nina Agadzhanova(script by)
    • Sergei Eisenstein(re-writes)
    • Grigoriy Aleksandrov(re-writes)
  • Stars
    • Aleksandr Antonov
    • Vladimir Barskiy
    • Grigoriy Aleksandrov
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    • 235User reviews
    • 99Critic reviews
    • 97Metascore
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    Aleksandr Antonov
    Aleksandr Antonov
    • Grigory Vakulinchuk
    Vladimir Barskiy
    Vladimir Barskiy
    • Commander Golikov
    Grigoriy Aleksandrov
    Grigoriy Aleksandrov
    • Chief Officer Giliarovsky
    Ivan Bobrov
    Ivan Bobrov
    • Young Sailor Flogged While Sleeping
    • (as I. Bobrov)
    Mikhail Gomorov
    • Militant Sailor
    Aleksandr Levshin
    • Petty Officer
    Nina Poltavtseva
    Nina Poltavtseva
    • Woman With Pince-nez
    • (as N. Poltavtseva)
    Konstantin Feldman
    • Student Agitator
    Prokhorenko
    Prokhorenko
    • Mother Carrying Wounded Boy
    A. Glauberman
    A. Glauberman
    • Wounded Boy
    Beatrice Vitoldi
    Beatrice Vitoldi
    • Woman With Baby Carriage
    Daniil Antonovich
    • Sailor
    Iona Biy-Brodskiy
    • Student
    • (as Brodsky)
    Julia Eisenstein
    • Woman with Food for Sailors
    Sergei Eisenstein
    Sergei Eisenstein
    • Odessa Citizen
    • (as Sergei M. Eisenstein)
    Andrey Fayt
    Andrey Fayt
    • Recruit
    • (as A. Fait)
    Korobey
    • Legless Veteran
    Marusov
    • Officer
      • Sergei Eisenstein
    • Writers
      • Nina Agadzhanova(script by)
      • Sergei Eisenstein(re-writes) (uncredited)
      • Grigoriy Aleksandrov(re-writes) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      The flag seen flying on the ship after the crew had mutinied is white, which is the color of the tsars, but this was done so that it could be hand-painted red (the color of communism) on the celluloid. Since this is a black-and-white film, if the flag had been red it would have shown as black in the film. The flag was hand-tinted red for 108 frames by director Sergei Eisenstein for the film's premier.
    • Goofs
      In the Imperial squadron near the end of the film, there are close-ups of triple gun turrets of Gangut-class dreadnought. It possibly was made this way to show the power of Imperial fleet, but battleships of 1905 were much smaller pre-dreadnoughts, with twin turrets only, just like "Potemkin". "Ganguts" entered service in 1914.
    • Quotes

      Sailor: Shoulder to shoulder. The land is ours. Tomorrow is ours.

    • Alternate versions
      Sergei Eisenstein's premiere version opened with an unattributed quote from Leon Trotsky's "1905": The spirit of mutiny swept the land. A tremendous, mysterious process was taking place in countless hearts: the individual personality became dissolved in the mass, and the mass itself became dissolved in the revolutionary impetus. This quote was removed by Soviet censors in 1934, and replaced by a quotation from V.I. Lenin's "Revolutionary Days": Revolution is war. Of all the wars known in history, it is the only lawful, rightful, just and truly great war...In Russia this war has been declared and won. The original text was restored in 2004.
    • Connections
      Edited into Seeds of Freedom (1943)

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    10/10
    Still one of the best films ever made.
    Quite a lot has been said about this film and its landmark importance in forming the language of film. If you are interested in film history, to truly understand the innovations Eisenstein brings to the medium you might try viewing Potemkin along side most any film made before it (those of D.W. Griffith offer a good contrast). It should be allowed that Eisenstein was not the only montage theorist and the principles of montage editing would likely have been discovered by another given time. However, even today, few directors have approached the skill with which Eisenstein created meaning through the combination of images at such an early point in the evolution of the medium.

    If you are not interested in that sort of thing, Potemkin is still one of the most beautiful and moving films ever made. You should see it, buy it, and tatoo it to your chest.
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    • Jun 20, 1999

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    • Release date
      • December 24, 1925 (Soviet Union)
      • Soviet Union
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      • Russian
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine
    • Production company
      • Mosfilm
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    • 1 hour 6 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Silent

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