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Battleship Potemkin (1925)
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After the success of
Strike
(1924),
Sergei Eisenstein
was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a film commemorating the uprising of 1905. Eisenstein's scenario, boiled down from what was to have been a multipart epic of the occasion, focussed on the crew of the battleship
Potemkin
. Fed up with the extreme cruelties of their officers and their maggot-ridden meat rations, the sailors stage a violent mutiny. This, in turn, sparks an abortive citizens' revolt against the Czarist regime. The film's centerpiece is staged on the Odessa Steps, where in 1905 the Czar's Cossacks methodically shot down rioters and innocent bystanders alike. To Eisenstein, this single bloody incident was the crucible of the successful 1917 Bolshevik revolution, and the result was the "Odessa Steps sequence," which is often considered the most famous sequence ever filmed; it is certainly one of the most imitated, perhaps most overtly by
Brian De Palma
in
The Untouchables
(1987). This triumph of Eisenstein's "rhythmic editing" technique occurs in the middle of film, not as the climax, as more current film structure might do it. All the actors in the film were amateurs, selected by Eisenstein because of their "rightness" as types for their roles. Pictorial quality varies from print to print, but even in a duped-down version, Battleship Potemkin is must-see cinema. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Cast
Grigory Alexandrov
Senior Officer Gilyarousky
Alexander Antonov
Vokulinchuk
Vladimir Barsky
The Capt.
I. Bobrov
Recruit
Mikhail Gomorov
Sailor Motyushenko
Marusov
Officer
Alexandr Levshin
Andrei Fayt
Repnikova
zhenshchina na lestnitse
Production Crew
Eduard K. Tissé
Cinematographer
V. Popov
Cinematographer
Edmund Meisel
Composer (Music Score)
Sergei Eisenstein
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Editor
Deutsches Filmorchestra
Musical Performer
Vasili Rakhals
Production Designer
Nina Agadzhanova
Screenwriter
Sergei Eisenstein
Screenwriter
Year: 1925
Runtime: 65
Country: USSR
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature
Genre
Historical Film
Produced by
Amkino
© 2009 Spout LLC. Portions of content provided by All Movie Guide.