Battleship Potemkin

Silent, Drama, History

Battleship Potemkin, sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, 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.

Movie Info

Directed by: Sergei Eisenstein
Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy, Grigori Aleksandrov
Produced by: Jacob Bliokh
Written by: Nina Agadzhanova, Sergei Eisenstein
Cinematography: Eduard Tisse, Vladimir Popov (Uncredited)
Edited by: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

Release date: 21 December 1925 (USSR)
Running time: 75 minutes
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Silent film with English intertitles

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