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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0018111234191
Format: Black & White, DVD, Silent, NTSC
Label: Delta
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Delta
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Delta
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Running Time: 66 minutes
Studio: Delta
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatization of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of movement, shots of varying length to build the rhythm, close-ups for perspective and shock effect, and symbolic imagery for commentary, all to create one of the most cinematically exciting sequences in film history. Eisenstein's film is Marxist propaganda to be sure, but the power of this masterpiece lies not in its preaching but its poetry. --Sean Axmaker
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Stylistically, The Battleship Potemkin serves as a revolutionary film, not only in its subject matter, but also in its unique use of montage. As a pioneer who championed a new purpose for cinema, Eisenstein proposed a "kino fist" approach to filmmaking, one in which the film attacks the viewer's senses with symbolic metaphors, rhythmic editing, and highly-charged melodrama. Includes a rare documentary on Eisentein.
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The great Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, known for films such as the 1938 "Alexander Nevsky" and the 1944-1946 films "Ivan the Terrible", but if there was one movie that the filmmaker will be remembered for is his 1925 masterpiece "The Battleship Potemkin". A film based on the true story of the sailors of the Battleship Potemkin that rebelled against the officers of the Tsarist regime.
When Eisenstein created "Potemkin", his goal was to create a revolutionary propaganda film and ... Read More
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Potemkin, the Eisenstein classic, is a great film restoration proving that Blu-Ray can make old films even better. I am hoping that ALL of the Eisenstein films get similar treatment.
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A classic silent movie by Russian director Sergey Eisenstein. He employed advanced (for the time) cinematic techniques in its production. Lots of Russian propaganda but this version is more true to the intention of the director. It was rather inspiring. Worth viewing just for the views of Odessa.
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Too soon for a review. Have'nt got the disc yet. Did you really send it?
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BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN from the Russian Series "The Year 1905". Proclaimed as on of the BEST FILMS ever made (silent or sound)!!!!
That is a claim that was hard to swallow especially since this was a silent film. In todays world, sitting and watching subtitles and a black and white 1925 Standard Ratio film seems meaningless and a waste of time.
Well let me tell you this film has showed up on every Best Film list ever made including "1001 Movies you must see before you die" ... Read More
