Directed by:
Sergei M. EisensteinComposer:
Edmund MeiselVOD (1)
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Sergei M. Eisenstein directs this historical, silent Russian drama centred on the naval mutiny and street riots at the seaport of Odessa that sparked the 1905 Russian Revolution. When the crew of the Battleship Potemkin protests after being given rotten meat as rations, the captain responds by ordering the execution of the dissidents. Outrage at this injustice quickly ignites and the townspeople soon surround the harbour in a mass demonstration - but the scene gives way to tragedy and brutality as the authorities move in to quell the uprising. (Eureka Entertainment)
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Objectively, I have to give Battleship Potemkin all five stars. It’s a visually disarming masterpiece, technically extremely advanced and so well constructed that even without dialogue it can repeatedly send chills down the spine and evoke the emotions and ideas that it so blatantly promotes. And for the record, I put the "massacre on the stairs" scene on the same level stylistically as the best of Kubrick and Spielberg. 90%
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No film without dialogue has said as much to me as Battleship Potemkin did.
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The story of the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin is fatally simple. First off, the crew rejects the rotten, worm-infested meat, whereupon they are advised to consume this gastronomic delicacy after rinsing it in salted water. That would tend to piss them off. Salt and worms! History has called what followed a revolution, and students can still play on their favorite vivid image of the Odessa stairs. The biggest fights are over the role of the carriage, and only the poor baby’s mother is worse off.
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A prime and textbook example of the Soviet montage school in the form of a breathtaking war drama that still has something to say to contemporary audiences more than 80 years later. I admire crowd scenes in films and there were plenty of them here, including one of the most visually impressive, the Odessa staircase. Sergei Eisenstein shows here what a skilled filmmaker and craftsman director he is, and I fully believe him. In short, a gem of film history that has particularly good camera work and brisk editing.
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That made me laugh. Agitation of the heaviest category, perhaps still excusable in its day, but so brilliantly filmed in places (The Stairs of Odessa) that it cannot be dismissed. Whenever there was any text I was bursting into loud laughter and the bestial catchphrase "Let's go! Let's beg them!" brought tears to my eyes.
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An incredible film that is a reflection of its time, an image of ideology, yet also a masterpiece despite its modest 77-minute runtime. The mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin, the crowds in Odessa being massacred - these are incredible shots that you can hardly believe actually happened. Coordinating so many people for the scene on the stairs is truly incredible. Sergei Eisenstein is simply one of the most significant filmmakers regardless of nationality, era, or political beliefs.
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