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POTEMKIN |
aka BRONENOSETS POTYOMKIN
Year: 1926
UK: BFI Films
Cast: Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Vladimir Barsky,
Mikhail Gomorov, Aleksandr Levshin, I Bobrov, Beatrice Vitoldi, N
Poltavseva, Julia Eisenstein, Sergei Eisenstein
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Country: USSR
UK: 71 mins
UK Certificate: PG contains moderate violence
UK Release Date: 29 April 2011 (Limited Re-release)
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Synopsis
Originally banned from release in Britain, the film was directed by
Sergei Eisenstein in response to the Russian revolutionary leaders
commemorating the Potemkin uprising.
In the film the hardship
inflicted on the crew of the battleship by the officers reaches
breaking point. Having returned from fighting the war with Japan, the
ship sails around the Black Sea while the living conditions of the
crew become increasingly dire.
When the officers single out the rebellious crew members and order a
firing squad to kill them and restore law and order, their plan
backfires and the crew mutiny taking control of the battleship. The
news reaches the citizens of Odessa onshore, who send out supplies
to the ship. But victory is short lived as troops loyal to the czar
descend on the city and massacre innocent civilians in their path.
Shot in black and white.
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