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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305090038
Format: AC-3, Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305090033
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 1998
Running Time: 74 minutes
Sales Rank: 41426
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1925
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Based on the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution, Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece 'Battleship Potemkin' is often voted one of the ten greatest films ever made, this program includes a powerful musical score by N Kruikov.
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Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatization of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of movement, shots of varying length to build the rhythm, close-ups for perspective and shock effect, and symbolic imagery for commentary, all to create one of the most cinematically exciting sequences in film history. Eisenstein's film is Marxist propaganda to be sure, but the power of this masterpiece lies not in its preaching but its poetry. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - potemkin revitalized
This is the best edition of this classic film. The use of the original score and the beautiful, clean print make it a pleasure to watch. The reintroduction of the original release's hand painted frames of the red flag into the otherwise black and white film has an emotional power that even my high school history students felt and commented on later. They were surprised at the fact that they, who are accustomed to color and hi-def,felt the impact of the brief punch of color. And of course, the baby ... Read More
Rating: - KULTUR VHS version is excellent!
Sergei Eisenstein's BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN portrays an early event of the people's uprising of 1905-- an incident aboard a Tsarist battleship that turned deadly.
The ship's crew hung out several rotting sides of beef that had just been delivered as a way of protest, saying they wouldn't eat this wormy stuff anymore. When the medical officer examined the meat, he saw it was crawling but still said: "Those aren't worms... they're only maggots. Just wash them off with brine; the meat's perfectly ... Read More
Rating: - Great Restoration
I have this on an old VHS Tape. This is miles ahead and well worth the wait. A must have for silent film fans.
Rating: - "History of Cinema" edition
I just watched the "History of Cinema" edition with the documentary on Eisenstein. It was quite watchable and moving.
It drives me crazy the way films get chopped up and then marketed with no details about the mutilation and it takes lot of work to even hope to know what you should buy. There otta be a law. Truth in advertising, proper labeling or something like that. I could not figure out before buying if this Potemkin is really the best restored etc. or not.
But I will say ... Read More
Rating: - Brothers!
Serge Eisenstein is heralded as a master of the silent film. His use of the montage has become a trademark and is common piece of modern cinema. In this his most famous work, the montage is used to great effect in several scenes, namely the famous Odessa Steps sequence. Battleship Potemkin is the story of disgruntled soldiers on a battleship who, when forced to eat rotten meat and obey ruthless officers, decide to mutiny. Their leader is killed in the process and becomes a martyr for the cause of the oppressed ... Read More
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