Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin

  • Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
  • Writer: Nina Agadzhanova,Sergei M. Eisenstein,Grigoriy Ale
  • Countries of origin: Soviet Union
  • Language: None, Russian
  • Release date: December 24, 1925
  • Sound mix: Silent
  • Aspect ratio: 1.25 : 1
  • Also known as: Potemkin
  • "Battleship Potemkin" is a feature film directed by Sergey Eisenstein and starring Alexander Antonov and others. The film is a tribute to the 20th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 1905.
    The film tells the historical story of the Battleship uprising of the Odessa Navy Potemkin.

    Details

    • Release date December 24, 1925
    • Filming locations Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine
    • Production companies Goskino, Mosfilm

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $51,198

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $5,641

    Gross worldwide

    $61,389

    Movie reviews

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    • By Emmanuel 2022-06-09 12:25:58

      Battleship Potemkin--Not Perfect Enough for the Movie

      Having skills doesn't equal a good movie. I don't think anyone would disagree. Plot and characters are also an important part of a movie.

      The first is the characters. If it weren't for my low understanding, this film should have created a group portrait of the oppressed Soviet masses. This in itself (referring to creating a group portrait) is not a...

    • By Cheyanne 2022-04-21 09:02:28

      "Battleship Potemkin" 1925

      Jia Zhangke said: "When you forget what a movie is, just watch "Battleship Potemkin".
          My understanding of silent films is still stuck in the fragments of Master Chaplin's works that were often broadcast on TV when I was a child. Exaggerated and comical action, music to match the plot, and white words on a black background from time to time, that's all. I have to admit that this "Battleship Potemkin" refreshed my view of silent films.
          When I was on Baidu, I couldn't find the...

    • By Dorcas 2022-04-21 09:02:28

      for whom the death knell tolls

      The opening speech in Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was written by John Dunn, "For whom the death knell is tolling, I am at a loss, not for the darkness, it is mourning for you." "Battleship Potemkin" is director Eisenstein's tribute film to the 20th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1905. In fact, I can't read the joy and pride it contains, only the huge trauma of the war swept me, and all the The flames of war, the endless smoke of gunpowder, the cries of despair—seem to be...

    • By Rhiannon 2022-04-21 09:02:28

      Montage and Long take of the In the Mood for Love and Battleship Potemkin

      Eisenstein is a Soviet director who developed montage and directed many famous films like The Battleship Potemkin, Ivan The Terrible. He was enthusiastically and actively supported the ideals of the October Revolution and also supported the Soviet Union. He was famous for using montage , and developed a theory of montage. The Battleship Potemkin was originally conceived from a series of celebrating the revolutionary films under a generic title called The year 1905. The film want to show the...

    • By Darrion 2022-04-21 09:02:28

      Rebellion sparked by a bowl of borscht

      Putting aside your so-called movie aesthetics, I really don't think the whole movie is a good movie.
          Many plots in the movie can be told in a few shots, but the director uses a large number of shots to render, and repeatedly uses the same shots to represent the same subject, which often makes people feel teased. For example, in the Odessa staircase scene, to show the brutality of the government and the massacre of the people, it only takes a few shots of soldiers killing the people to...

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    • By Elda 2023-08-09 20:51:01

      This is the first time I've watched this film in its entirety, and although I still can't fully accept the rhythm of a silent film, the Odessa staircase in the middle is amazing. At least it definitely looked that way back in the...

    • By Emmanuel 2023-05-21 06:29:19

      Exploding montage! Exploding, exploding, 1905! Forgive me for not recovering from the last scene!...

    • By Kameron 2023-03-29 00:34:47

      This is a masterpiece that I have been meditating on for many years and have never watched it. An unrepeatable masterpiece in the movie palace. Hope to see the film version of the screen again...

    • By Dagmar 2023-02-02 16:47:34

      I don't know if it's the player or the external subtitles. I didn't read all the subtitles by the end of the movie, but this doesn't affect your appreciation, or you can say that you worship this...

    • By Westley 2022-09-22 03:27:21

      Awesome montages and quick...

    Movie plot

    The film consists of five parts
    -"Man and Maggot", describing the hard life and inhuman treatment of sailors on the Battleship . The beef with maggots made the soldiers flutter and became the fuse of the uprising.
    2. The "tragedy on the rear deck", the sailors representing the uprising were suppressed by the officers. The commander ordered the rebels to be shot, and the priest came to pray. The firing squad refused to shoot. The rebels...
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    Background creation

    The film "Battleship Potemkin" describes a real event in the 1905 Russian Revolution. At that time, the Czarist autocratic system had become extremely corrupt, and the masses of workers and peasants were increasingly dissatisfied with and resisted the czar's reactionary rule, and the wave of strikes spread all over the country. On January 9th-the famous "Blood Sunday" in history, the tsarist government's bloody suppression of peaceful...
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    " Odessa steps "

    From 1924 to 1929 was the golden age of Soviet cinema, a number of classics emerged. Among them, "Battleship Potemkin" directed by Eisenstein was the most famous one. The film was shot in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa, with only a few professional actors, and the big scene was completed by more than 10,000 citizens and the Red Navy. The film uses rich montage techniques to give the picture complex symbolic meaning. Among them,...
    more about Battleship Potemkin " Odessa steps "

    Movie quotes

    • Grigory Vakulinchuk: Russian prisoners in Japan are fed better than we are! We've had enough rotten meat!

      Smirov, the ship doctor: It's good meat. End of discussion!

    • Chief Officer Giliarovsky: The sailors refused to eat the borscht.

    • Commander Golikov: Whoever is satisfied with the borscht take two steps forward!