19/12/2007...12:14 pm

Film on Wednesday – Battleship Potemkin

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The Battleship Potemkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatised version of the Battleship Potemkin uprising that occurred in 1905 when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive officers of the Tsarist regime.Potemkin has been called one of the most influential films of all time, and it was even named the greatest film of all time at the World’s Fair at Brussels, Belgium, in 1958….more>>

Place 4. in The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1952.


The pram and steps scene from Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin.

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