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Battleship Potemkin 1925



Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin commemorates the unsuccessful 1905 Sovjet revolution. A harsh military disciplin (mandatory eating of rotten meat) on board of the ship ignites a munity by the sailors. The film, however, is most famous for one distinct sequence, the Odessa steps massacre. Soldiers are killing common people in an unprecedented sequence of camera shots. althought goverment tried to break the sailors uprising, the ship was not sunk or otherwise destroyed and finds harbor in Romania. Eisenstein almost instant fame made him travel West to Hollywood, but he was never sucessful, even though Selznick himself was his promoter. Eisenstein's productions were considered too complicated or depressing for the average American filmgoer. He returned to Russia and suffered a personal depression after which he directed several "happy" Sovjet propaganda like movies. The odessa steps sequence filming, he developed a system of editing techniques, called montage, making complex statements visually rather than through the use of dialogue (robotic soldiers shooting the suffering crowd) have been copied numerous times (amongst others Brian de Palma's Untouchables, the baby carriage sequence). Sergei Mikhailovitsch Eisenstein survived the Stalinists because of his world fame. His trilogy about Ivan the Terrible met with Stalinist government dissatisfaction. Part I was released in 1946, but Part II was withheld by the Soviets Film authority until 1958. He died of heart failure in 1948 before finishing the third part.

producerEisenstein, Sergei M.screenwriterEisenstein, Sergei M.
musicscoreMeisel, Edmund duration75
colorNo soundNo
genredrama countryCCCP

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Director: Eisenstein, Sergei M.

 Male Star: Barsky, Vladimir

 Female Star: Vitoldi, Beatrice
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