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| Genre: | Classics |
| Year: | 1925 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 72mins |
| Country: | USSR |
| Cast: | Grigori Alexandrov, Alexander Antonov, Vladmir Bansky |
| Credits: | Directed by Sergi Eisenstein. (Silent, BW, 35mm) |
Synopsis
The Soviet silent cinema of the 1920's was a great creative movemnt, and Battleship Potemkin is often regarded as its supreme achievement. In giving his account of the 1905 Black Sea mutiny and the sympathetic response to it by the people of Odessa, Eisestein brilliantly uses montage, the dynamic juxtiposition of shots - to make intellectual and metamorphic points and to tell the tale dramatically with subtle alterations of space and time. The film is both formally and beautiful compellingly real in its depiction of ships, water, crowds, the stones of a city, and human outrage.
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