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Battleship Potemkin PG rating

A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content.

Historical drama 1925 69 mins Silent

Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein

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Overview

In essence, it tells a five-part story of a naval mutiny leading to full-blown revolution, but while this material could be crudely propagandist in other hands, Eisenstein uses images of such dynamic compositional strength and editing of such frame-perfect precision that it’s hard not to be swept along, regardless of personal politics.

Director
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Featuring
Vladimir BarskyGrigori V. Aleksandrov
Genres
Historical drama
Certificate
PGContains moderate violence
Released
1925
Country
USSR
Language
Russian with English subtitles