Battleship Potemkin : from the series "The Year 1905" /
Odessa - 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin, the ship's loyal crew contemplates the unthinkable - mutiny. Seizing control of the Potemkin and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors' revolt becomes the rallying point for a Russian pop...
| Uniform Title: | Bronenoset︠s︡ "Potemkin" (Motion picture). |
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| Other Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | Video |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captioned; silent film with music soundtrack; English intertitles. |
| Published: |
[Soviet Union] :
1st Studio of Goskino,
1925.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Kanopy) |
| Summary: | Odessa - 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin, the ship's loyal crew contemplates the unthinkable - mutiny. Seizing control of the Potemkin and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors' revolt becomes the rallying point for a Russian populace ground under the boot heels of the Czar's Cossacks. When ruthless White Russian cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps, the most famous and most quoted film sequence in cinema history is born. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1925. Includes the original 1926 Edmund Meisel score, performed by the Deutsches Filmorchestra Babelsberg and conducted by Helmut Imig. 2005 restoration by Enno Patalas and Anna Bohn in association with the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Filmmuseum Berlin-Deutsche Kinemathek, the British Film Institute and Gosfilmkino. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (69 min.)) : sound, black and white |
| Playing Time: | 01:08:00 |
| Production Credits: | Cinematographer, Eduard Tisse; music score, Edmund Meisel. |