Battleship Potemkin (1925) movie
Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Patyomkin), 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.
The film is set in June 1905; the protagonists of the film are the members of the crew of the Potemkin, a battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. Eisenstein divided the plot into five acts, each with its own title:
Act I: "Men and Maggots" in which the sailors protest at having to eat rotten meat;
Act II: "Drama on the Deck" in which the sailors mutiny and their leader, Vakulinchuk, is killed;
Act III: "A Dead Man Calls for Justice" in which Vakulinchuk's body is mourned over by the people of Odessa;
Act IV: "The Odessa Steps", in which imperial soldiers massacre the Odessans;
Act V: "One against all" in which the squadron tasked with intercepting the Potemkin instead declines to engage; lowering their guns, its sailors cheer on the rebellious battleship and join the mutiny.
Battleship Potemkin (1925) movie
Genres: Drama, History, Silent film
Production Co: Goskino
Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein
Writing Credits: Nina Agadzhanova, Nikolai Aseyev (intertitles), Sergei M. Eisenstein, Sergei Tretyakov
Cinematography by Eduard Tisse, Vladimir Popov
Cast:
Aleksandr Antonov as Grigory Vakulinchuk (Bolshevik sailor)
Vladimir Barsky as Commander Golikov
Grigori Aleksandrov as Chief Officer Giliarovsky
I. Bobrov as Young sailor flogged while sleeping
Mikhail Gomorov as Militant sailor
Aleksandr Levshin as Petty Officer
N. Poltavseva as Woman with pince-nez
Lyrkean Makeon as the Masked Man
Konstantin Feldman as Student agitator
Beatrice Vitoldi as Woman with the baby carriage
