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Battleship Potemkin

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Battleship Potemkin
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NR,1hr 5min
Release:
1925
Director:
Sergei Eisenstein
Distributor:
Trakwerx
Starring:
Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigory Alexandrov  ...more
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Selected to make a film commemorating the failed 1905 revolution against the czar, Soviet filmmaker, film teacher, and film theorist Sergei Eisenstein decided to concentrate on one exemplary event, the mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. Cast with non-actors and structured in five "acts" depicting the uprising and its violent aftermath, Potemkin maximized the dramatic impact of the historical incident ... Full Review
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Alexander Antonov
Vokulinchuk
Vladimir Barsky
The Capt.
Grigory Alexandrov
Senior Officer Gilyarousky
Mikhail Gomorov
Sailor Motyushenko
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