https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_PotemkinBattleship Potemkin is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm.
It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers.
Battleship Potemkin was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958.
In 2012, the British Film Institute named it the eleventh greatest film of all time.
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This is an important early film from a time when film grammar (the wide shot, the narrower shot, the close up and what that sequence suggests) was still primitive and open to question.
ReplyDeleteThe movie is unapologetically pro-Soviet which is a political position which has waxed and wained in acceptability in politics over the decades. So that's a hurdle for the modern audience to get over.
The famous scene is the massacre of protestors on the city steps. It looks competent but as direction it's a step along the journey from early film nothing more.
ABM Rating 2/3