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Battleship Potemkin
In the film that brought Russian cinema and director Eisenstein to world attention, an incident during the 1905 Revolution is recreated, when the crew of the Potemkin mutinied rather than eat rotting food, setting off a brutal massacre. One of the most memorable scenes in movie history - a baby's pram bouncing down the Odessa Steps - was used 60 years later in THE UNTOUCHABLES.
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Eureka Video Battleship Potemkin [1925]
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 dramatisation of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship <I>Potemkin</I>. 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. <i>--Sean Axmaker</i>
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I B Tauris & Co Ltd The Battleship Potemkin (KINOfiles Film Companion S.)
Pages: 96, Paperback, I B Tauris & Co Ltd
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Pet Shop Boys-The Battleship Potemkin
Original music for the film, written and performed by Pet Shop Boys. Feturing Hit Single 'No Fear For Tears'.
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EMI Lowe Battleship Potemkin Jonathan Stockhammer Pet Shop Boys
'Comrades!'. Men And Maggots. Our Daily Bread. Drama In The Harbour. Nyet. To The Shore. Odessa. No Time For Tears. To The Battleship. After All - The Odessa Staircase. Stormy Meetings. Night Falls. Full Steam Ahead. The Squardon. For Freedom.
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Sound Track Factory Meisel The Battleship Potemkin
soundtrack
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