Film · 1925

Battleship Potemkin

Name: Battleship Potemkin
Genre: Drama, Historical
Released: 1925
Duration: 75 min

Bronenosets Potyomkin

SOVIET UNIONDRAMA · HISTORICAL75 MIN

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The 1905 mutiny aboard the Potemkin, staged as a symphony of crowds. The Odessa Steps sequence became the most quoted lesson in editing in the history of cinema.

Details

Original title: Bronenosets Potyomkin
Also known as: O Encouraçado Potemkin
Year: 1925
Country: Soviet Union
Genre: Drama, Historical
Running time: 75 min
Language: Silent (Russian intertitles)
Image: 1.33:1 · black and white
Studio: Goskino
Distributor: Goskino
Release: 1925

Credits

Directed by: Sergei Eisenstein
Screenplay: Nina Agadzhanova
Main cast: Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov
Cinematography: Eduard Tisse
Editing: Sergei Eisenstein
Music (1926): Edmund Meisel

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