The Battleship Potemkin - The Odessa Steps sequence

The Battleship Potemkin or Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It is a fictional narrative film meant to glorify a real-life event that occurred in 1905, the Battleship Potemkin uprising, when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive officers during the Tsarist regime. Potemkin has been cal ...

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• The Battleship Potemkin - Film style and content
• The Battleship Potemkin - The Odessa Steps sequence
• The Battleship Potemkin - Previous censorship and recent restoration
• The Battleship Potemkin - Legacy

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Deliberately written as a revolutionary propaganda film, Eisenstein used this film to test his theories of "montage". The revolutionary Russian filmmakers of the Kuleshov school of filmmaking were experimenting with the effect of movies on the audience, and Eisenstein edited the film in a way that would produce the greatest emotional response, so that the viewer would feel sympathy for the rebellious sailors of the battleship Potemkin and hatred for their cruel overlords. In the manner of most propaganda, the story was written in a very simplistic fashion, so th ...

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The Battleship Potemkin, The Battleship Potemkin - Film style and content, The Battleship Potemkin - The Odessa Steps sequence, The Battleship Potemkin - Previous censorship and recent restoration, The Battleship Potemkin - Legacy

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Deliberately written as a revolutionary propaganda film, Eisenstein used this film to test his theories of "montage". The revolutionary Russian filmmakers of the Kuleshov school of filmmaking were experimenting with the effect of movies on the audience, and Eisenstein edited the film in a way that would produce the greatest emotional response, so that the viewer would feel sympathy for the rebellious sailors of the battleship Potemkin and hatred for their cruel overlords. In the manner of most propaganda, the story was written in a very simplistic fashion, so th ...

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The Battleship Potemkin, The Battleship Potemkin - Film style and content, The Battleship Potemkin - The Odessa Steps sequence, The Battleship Potemkin - Previous censorship and recent restoration, The Battleship Potemkin - Legacy, The Battleship Potemkin - Notes

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After its premiere in Russia, it was later shown in an edited form in Germany, with some scenes of extreme violence edited out by its German distributors. A written introduction by Leon Trotsky was also cut from Russian prints by the Soviets after he ran afoul of Josef Stalin. The film was banned under the Nazis in Germany. It would also be banned at one time under the British and French for its revolutionary zeal. In 2004, a three year restoration of the film was completed. Many excised scenes of violence were restored, as well as th ...

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The Battleship Potemkin, The Battleship Potemkin - Film style and content, The Battleship Potemkin - The Odessa Steps sequence, The Battleship Potemkin - Previous censorship and recent restoration, The Battleship Potemkin - Legacy, The Battleship Potemkin - Notes

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The original score was composed by Edmund Meisel. A salon orchestra performed the Berlin premiere in 1926; its instrumentation was flute/piccolo, trumpet, trombone, harmonium, percussion and strings without viola. Meisel wrote the score in twelve days and nights due to the late approval from the censorship board. Due to this problem, Meisel would repeat large sections of the score, unchanged, in an effort to complete the project. Composer/conductor Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen has reorchestrated and improved the score based on the original piano score and has adjusted it to fit the r ...

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The Battleship Potemkin, The Battleship Potemkin - Film style and content, The Battleship Potemkin - The Odessa Steps sequence, The Battleship Potemkin - Previous censorship and recent restoration, The Battleship Potemkin - Legacy, The Battleship Potemkin - Notes

Read more here: » The Battleship Potemkin: Encyclopedia II - The Battleship Potemkin - Legacy

After its premiere in Russia, it was later shown in a edited form in Germany, with some scenes of extreme violence edited out by its German distributors. A written introduction by Leon Trotsky was also cut from Russian prints by the Soviets after he ran afoul of Josef Stalin. The film was banned under the Nazis in Germany. It would also be banned at one time under the British and French for its revolutionary zeal. In 2004, a three year restoration of the film was completed. Many excised scenes of violence were restored, as well as the ...

See also:

The Battleship Potemkin, The Battleship Potemkin - Film style and content, The Battleship Potemkin - The Odessa Steps sequence, The Battleship Potemkin - Previous censorship and recent restoration, The Battleship Potemkin - Legacy, The Battleship Potemkin - Notes

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