The Battleship Potemkin
Dir: Sergei Eisenstein, Russia, 1925, silent, bw (8*)
Everyone who loves cinema should see at least one Potemkin film, this is his masterpiece. It tells the story of a battleship revolt that became a revolutionary movement in pre-Bolshevik czarist Russia. Terrific camerwork, epic recreation of a historical event, astounding movie-making for the time, he actually caused more deaths filming the "storming of the Odessa steps" sequence than the real event in 1917!
Everyone who loves cinema should see at least one Potemkin film, this is his masterpiece. It tells the story of a battleship revolt that became a revolutionary movement in pre-Bolshevik czarist Russia. Terrific camerwork, epic recreation of a historical event, astounding movie-making for the time, he actually caused more deaths filming the "storming of the Odessa steps" sequence than the real event in 1917!
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