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Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)

Drama | 75 minutes / 66 minutes (VS) / 72 minutes (Blu-ray)
3,56 471 votes

Genre: Drama / History

Duration: 75 minuten / 66 minuten (VS) / 72 minuten (Blu-ray)

Alternative titles: Battleship Potemkin / Pantserkruiser Potemkin / Pantserkruiser Potjomkin / Potemkin / The Armored Cruiser Potemkin / The Battleship Potemkin / Pantserkruiser Potemkine / Броненосец Потёмкин

Country: Soviet Union

Directed by: Sergei M. Eisenstein

Stars: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky and Grigoriy Aleksandrov

IMDb score: 7,9 (62.209)

Releasedate: 24 December 1925

Bronenosets Potyomkin plot

"Revolution is the only lawful, equal, effectual war. It was in Russia that this war was declared and begun."

Based on historical events, this film tells the story of the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike by the crew after being fed rotten meat has turned into riots. They raised the red flag, and tried to start the revolution in their home port of Odessa.

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Grigory Vakulinchuk

Commander Golikov

Chief Officer Giliarovsky

Young Sailor Flogged While Sleeping

Militant Sailor

Woman with Pince-nez

Student Agitator

Mother Carrying Wounded Boy

Wounded Boy

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mjk87 (moderator films)

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Vote number 1000, what do you want to see. Eventually I ended up with this one, which I knew a bit from CKV II years ago and also knew it as one of the most influential films of all time.

Well, a typical Soviet film. In any case because of the subject that is broached (with all the historical inaccuracies) but also because there is no leading role: everyone is equal. Eisenstein brings all this in a nice way. Sometimes beautiful abstract images (that dormitory with triangles, the boats sailing to the Potemkin or the black smoke in the light sky and the white glare of the sun in the dark sea in one image). The installation also stands out. Sometimes it feels a bit awkward, but otherwise Eisenstein knows how to create a lot of dynamics with all the tempo changes. Also, the music usually works well. And of course the film has one of the ten most famous scenes in the history of cinema.

In the end, not everything is equally exciting or interesting and certainly the last chapter after the climax feels a bit weak (despite some beautiful images). 4.0*.

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De filosoof

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“Revolution is war and of all wars this one is the only just one.”

The film begins with this quote from Lenin and the film is essentially a war propaganda film, but made so well that the Russians show that they are not inferior to Leni Riefenstahl. In the film, when the violent uprising erupts, someone shouts “Death to the Jews!” but he gets dirty looks from the rest because that is of course not the right war that is followed and glorified here, but the film seems to copy the futuristic style of the fascists with a love for machines, speed, strength, violence, war, chaos, crowds and stirring crescendos. The war rhetoric is also beautiful: the underlying solidarity of “one for all, all for one” becomes “one against all, all against one” when the enemy is confronted. However, the film also shows, in a somewhat expressionistic style, the ugliness of the life of the common people at the time - from having to eat rotten meat covered by maggots to poor and handicapped people - as well as the cruel oppression by the officers or elite that justifies the revolution or war. The film also reminded me a bit of Lynch's Eraserhead.

But above all, the film is surprisingly fresh and convincing for an old silent film from 1925: the story is simply exciting, the music supports the action and emotion effectively and the visuals are beautiful and intriguing. And it's not hard to imagine that a lot of the film was very innovative at the time. That makes the film a deserved classic.

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Dievegge

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Named after an eighteenth-century field marshal, the Potjomkin was a warship over a hundred meters long, with steam engines and gun turrets. Eisenstein used the Dvenadsat Apostolov ("Twelve Apostles"), an older warship that ironically was part of the tsarist fleet that had to put down the mutiny. Because that ship was docked, the stern never comes into view.

At the beginning, the protagonist is the sailor Grigory Vakulinchuk. As a Bolshevist, he believes in an uprising of the working class. His refusal to eat borshch with rotten meat is the impetus for the mutiny. After half an hour he is shot dead. After that there is no longer a main character, but it is about the struggle between the proletariat and the representatives of State and Church. There is a stark contrast between the shabby sailor suits and the tight officer uniforms.

Eisenstein's editing technique was just as revolutionary as the Marxist ideas. He quickly jumps from mass scenes to individual reaction shots and telling close-ups, for example of those maggots in the flesh. After the threatening words of an officer , the sailors see shadows of themselves, suspended from the ra. A nice detail is a seagull that happens to fly by. Numerous extras were deployed for the welcome in the port of Odessa, with a crowd walking onto the pier. The flag at the end is white, but usually it was colored red, the color of communism.

The stairway scene is fictional, although six months earlier the army fired on the crowd in front of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. The boots of the Cossacks indicate the threat. Iconic are the images of the rolling pram, the shoe on the boy's hand and the pince-nez hit by a bullet. The impressive montage strikes a good balance between the frenzy of the moving masses and the emotions of individuals.

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