Released in 1925, the film was shot by Eisenstein as a political propaganda film promoting the proletarian revolution. The film is silent, with a narration complemented by the right soundtrack.
It mainly talks about the poor food for the sailors on the battleship Potemkin for several months in 1905. The food was so bad that they had to drink raw maggot broth. As a result, more than a dozen sailors did not drink it, but were arrested by the officers on the ship. kill.
In desperation, the sailors revolted and threw the officers into the sea to feed the fish. During this period, an uprising sailor was shot and killed by an officer. Then the other sailors put the shot sailor on the shore of Odessa, and the people of Odessa knew about it, and they all supported the sailors' uprising.
At the same time, they held a demonstration in Odessa Square, and then they were suddenly shot and killed by the Tsar's Cossack soldiers. The Cossack soldiers did not spare even women and children. The battleship Potemkin then bombarded the Odessa Opera House, eventually defeating the Tsarist Armed Forces and prompting a successful uprising of the Armed Forces that eventually liberated Odessa.
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