MOVIE · 1926
Battleship Potemkin
DramaThrillerWar66 min
After sailors aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin rebel against their officers, a shipboard mutiny spills into Odessa, where a public show of support is met with a police massacre. In Sergei Eisenstein’s silent retelling of the 1905 uprising, Aleksandr Antonov is one of the men at the center of the revolt, and Beatrice Vitoldi appears among the civilians caught in the chaos on the steps. The film moves from the ship’s cramped decks to the city’s crowds, using stark close-ups and rapid cutting to connect one act of insubordination to a broader confrontation with imperial Russia.
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