Battleship Potemkin
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. The film's 75 minute duration is composed of 1,400 takes and is the precise model of its innovatory director's theory of montage. Potemkin is a vital viewing experience that transcends its landmark/milestone status. Its virtuoso technique remains dazzling and is at the service of a revolutionary fervour we can still experience. The Odessa Steps massacre, invented by Eisenstein and his collaborators, is one of cinema's greatest single sequences, and although the revolutionaries are the collective heroes, the key victims of the tsarist killers are all established as individuals before the shooting starts.
Cast:
Aleksandr Antonov (Grigory Vakulinchuk - Bolshevik Sailor)
Vladimir Barsky (Commander Golikov)
Grigori Aleksandrov (Chief Officer Giliarovsky)
Ivan Bobrov (Young Sailor)
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Writer: Nina Agadzhanova
Runtime: 75 min
Genre: Drama, History, War
Language: Silent Film
Subtitles: Greek
Production Year: 1925
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