Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin

 Cast: Vladimir Barsky
Vladimir Barsky
, Mikhail Gomorov
Mikhail Gomorov
, Levchenko
Levchenko
, Repnikova
Repnikova
, Marusov
Marusov
Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin

 Cast: Vladimir Barsky
Vladimir Barsky
, Mikhail Gomorov
Mikhail Gomorov
, Levchenko
Levchenko
, Repnikova
Repnikova
, Marusov
Marusov

Blu-ray (Black & White)

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Overview

After the success of Strike (1924), Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a film commemorating the uprising of 1905. Eisenstein's scenario, boiled down from what was to have been a multipart epic of the occasion, focussed on the crew of the battleship Potemkin. Fed up with the extreme cruelties of their officers and their maggot-ridden meat rations, the sailors stage a violent mutiny. This, in turn, sparks an abortive citizens' revolt against the Czarist regime. The film's centerpiece is staged on the Odessa Steps, where the Czar's Cossacks methodically shoot down rioters and innocent bystanders alike. Known as "The Odessa Steps sequence," this is often considered the most famous scene ever filmed; it is certainly one of the most imitated, perhaps most overtly by Brian De Palma in The Untouchables (1987). This triumph of Eisenstein's "rhythmic editing" technique occurs in the middle of film, not as the climax, as more current film structure might do it. All the actors in the film were amateurs, selected by Eisenstein because of their "rightness" as types for their roles. Pictorial quality varies from print to print, but even in a duped-down version, Battleship Potemkin is must-see cinema.

Product Details

Release Date: 04/20/2010
UPC: 0738329068127
Original Release: 1925
Source: Kino Lorber
Presentation: [B&W]
Language: English
Time: 1:11:00
Sales rank: 26,424

Special Features

"Tracing the Battleship Potomkin" a 42-minute docuemtnary on the making and restoration of the film; The restored film with newly-translated English intertitles; The restored film with original Russian intertitles (and optional English subtitles); The original 1926 Edmund Meisel score, performed by the Deutsches Filmorchestra, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio Audio 5.1; Photo galleries

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Vladimir Barsky Cmdr. Golikov
Mikhail Gomorov Matushenko
Levchenko Boatswain
Repnikova Woman on Steps
Marusov Officer
Alexander Lyoshin Petty Officer
Beatrice Vitoldi Mother with Baby Carriage
Konstantin Feldman Student Feldman
Protopopov Old Man
Korobei Legless Veteran
Yulia Eisenstein Lady Bringing Forth Fruit to Mutineers
A. Glauberman Aba
Prokopenko Aba's Mother
N. Paultautseva School Teacher
Iona Biy-Brodskiy Intellectual
Zerenin Student
Sailors of the Red Navy Themselves
Members of the Proletcult Theater Actor
Aleksandr Antonov Vakulinchuk,Vokulinchuk
Aleksandr Levshin Actor,Actor
Ivan Bobrov Humiliated Soldier
Grigoriy Aleksandrov Chief Officer Giliarovsky
Andrey Fayt Recruit
Vladimir Uralskiy Actor
Daniil Antonovich Sailor
M. Brodsky Intellectual
Citizens of Odessa Themselves
Sergey Eyzenshteyn Priest
A. Fait Actor
Grigori Alexandrov Actor
Yati Durant Composer
Erik Ellamen Composer
Eric Allaman Composer
Edmund Meisel Composer
Neil Tennant Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich Composer

Technical Credits
Sergei Eisenstein Director
Sergey Eyzenshteyn Screenwriter
Nina Agadzhanova Screenwriter
Nikolay Aseev Screenwriter
Sergey Tretyakov Screenwriter
Nina Shutko Screenwriter
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