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VHS : Battleship Potemkin [1925]
starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov, Mikhail Gomorov
directed by: Sergei M. Eisenstein
directed by: Sergei M. Eisenstein
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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5023965122520 Format: Black & White, PAL, Subtitled Label: Tartan Video Manufacturer: Tartan Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Tartan Video Release Date: June 03, 1996 Running Time: 65 minutes Sales Rank: 10972 Studio: Tartan Video Theatrical Release Date: 1925 |
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
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 Potemkin. 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. --Sean Axmaker
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- Forget the romanticism and admire the cinematographic masterpieceIr is a technical masterpiece. Eisenstein managed to do with the camera he had at the time things that no one else managed to even come close to. That's why this film must be watched and studied. The subject is romantic and it was done as pure propaganda, and the later Soviet period could not resist adding some good old narrow-minded commentary. But the film has some scenes that are so well done that we are wondering how it was possible. The baby perambulator going down the hundreds of steps in that ... Read More
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- Every film buff should see this - if it is a masterpiece is another matterSergei Eisenstein's landmark film, from 1925, alerted western audiences that something important was happening in the Soviet Union in terms of film-making (Lenin: "Cinema to us is the most important art"). The film itself deals with the 1905 uprising of the battleship of the title, how the crew of the ship rebelled against the czarist officers when they were asked to eat rotten meat, how after the mutiny the ship landed in the port of Odessa in the Black Sea (receiving the support of the population), ... Read More
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- Propaganda, and it works...The 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein presents a glorious Soviet version of the Battleship Potemkin uprising, which took place in 1905 when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive officers.
Potemkin is by rights of its directorial quality and images one of the most influential films of all time. It is composed of 5 episodes and as a revolutionary propaganda film. The Soviet filmmakers were experimenting what effect film editing can have on audiences ... Read More
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- Best Silent Movie EverBattleship Potemkin is one of if not thee greatest silent film of all time the film is about the russian revolt and is very well explanned this film is easily miles better then most war movies it doesnt get boring for one second.The dvd picture quality is great it is watchable unlike some others that are on dvd (a farewell to arms 1930 cough cough)
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- "The Men, the Maggots and the Madness": My Review on "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925)Sergei M. Eisenstein's "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925) is a movie that is on every serious moviegoer's Top 10 Film List. It would defiantly be on mine, along with "La Dolce Vita," "2001: A Space Odyssey," and "The Third Man." It's an important film which has amazed audiences from its original 1925 release right through to now. People I know still revisit "Battleship Potemkin" for its brilliance and spectacular sequences, and many people I know are still witnessing its genius for the first time. It's a ... Read More
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