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Battleship Potemkin 1925

type: Movie

language: Russian

duration: 74 min

genre: drama

theme: epic

director: Sergei Eisenstein

Score: 7 / 10

Battleship Potemkin, sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 Soviet silent epic film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein, it presents a dramatization of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers.

Plot

The film is set in June 1905; the protagonists of the film are the members of the crew of the ''Potemkin'', a battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. Eisenstein divided the plot into five acts, each with its own title:

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author	Grigori Aleksandrov Nikolai Aseev Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Tretyakov
contentLocation	Black Sea Odesa
director	Sergei Eisenstein
editor	Grigori Aleksandrov Sergei Eisenstein Uncredited:
genre	adventure drama historical thriller
keywords	1905 russian revolution afanasi matushenko baby carriage black sea fleet borscht broken glass canned goods charismatic leader cheer clean cook cossack cossack host cut fall firing squad flee fly giliarovsky give us this day our daily bread grigory vakulenchuk happen hide imperial russia imperial russian navy ippolit giliarovsky kill last rites lord\'s prayer matyushenko meet morning moving in odessa odessa steps opera house outnumber potemkin stairs red flag revolution russian battleship potemkin sail shout sleep tendra tendra spit uprise vakulinchuk woman shot
musicBy	Dmitri Shostakovich Edmund Meisel Nikolay Kryukov
producer	Jacob Bliokh
productionCompany	Mosfilm
publisher	Goskino
theme	avant-garde and experimental epic propaganda