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75 min – view video trailer
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsy, Grigori Aleksandrov
IMDB 8.1 / Amazon 4.3 / MRQE 86% / Tomatometer 100%
Genres: Drama, History, War, Foreign
Oscars: pre-Oscars
Ranked #36 Greatest Movies Through 1960, a Zagat Top Movie
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre. IMDB 8.1 rating from over 23,573 users
For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein s 1925 masterpiece has remained the most influential silent film of all time. Yet each successive generation has seen BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN subjected to censorship and recutting, its unforgettable power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from dubious sources. (now it has been restored!) Amazon 4.3 stars from over 98 users
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). Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer 100% Audience 85%
MRQE 86% from over 44 reviews
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