"Battleship Potemkin" is a movie
partially based on real events that occurred in the port of Odessa (Russia)
during the week following to June 26, 1905.
The sailors of the "Battleship
Potemkin" have had enough of abuse and, when they try to force them to eat
rotting meat, they decide to revolt. Full of expressive images, almost like a
photo album, "Battleship Potemkin" represents the magnification of
the figure of the masses and of the collective cause.
Released in the first decade of the Russian
Revolution (1925), it is a symbol of the importance of "Battleship
Potemkin" in the process of the failed revolution of 1905, antecedent to the one of October 1917.
This film is made of five episodes: Men and worms (Люди и черви), Drama on the Tendra Gulf (Драма на тендре), The dead man claims (Мёртвый взывает), Odessa's Ladder (Одесская лестница) and Meeting the Squadron {Встреча с эскадрой).
The film is worked as an organic whole: each one of its functional elements serves in favor of a composition that defines
the particular as function of the whole.
The sensational work involved in the
changes among the quality of the different actions generates in the viewer an emotion of
shock, that leads him to think through a psychological process, an intellectual consideration according to the chapter's theme.
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Writer: Nina Agadzhanova (script)
Stars: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky and
Grigori Aleksandrov
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