Battleship Potemkin : from the series "The year 1905"

The Resource Battleship Potemkin : from the series "The year 1905"
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Battleship Potemkin : from the series "The year 1905"
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from the series "The year 1905"
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produced by the 1st Studio of Goskino ; supervised by J.M. Bliokh ; script by N.F. Agadzhanova-Shutko ; director, S.M. Eisenstein
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  • Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin
  • Bronenoset︠s︡ Potemkin
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  • rus
  • eng
  • rus
Summary
Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a movie commemorating the failed uprising of 1905, a mere 20 years after the actual incident. Eisenstein duly hails as heroes the people whose actions were regarded as traitorous in 1905. It began when sailors on the Potemkin protested that the meat they were being fed was maggot infested. In response, the commander ordered that ten random sailors to be executed by firing squad, at which the crew turned on the officers and killed them all. The oppressed people of Odessa joined the revolt to show their rejection of the czarist regime--which sent Cossack troops--who then mowed down both rioters and innocent citizens without mercy. The film was banned at various times in the US and France, and for a longer time than any other film in British history; even Stalin banned it, at a time when mutiny was against the party line. It remains remarkable for the way it builds tension over a brisk 69 minutes, and in the right setting with the right audience, can still reveal its inflammatory power
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videorecording
Credits note
Head cinematographer, Eduard Tisse ; music (1926), Edmund Meisel ; adaptation and instrumentation (2005), conductor, Helmet Imig ; music performed by the Deutsches Filmorchestra Babelsberg
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Silent film with English intertitles (disc 1) or Russian intertitles with optional English subtitles (disc 2)
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Alexander Antonov, Grigori Alexandrov, Vladimir Barski, Mikhail Gomorov, Aleksandr Levshin
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69
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live action

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