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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0018111234191
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Silent, NTSC
Label: Delta
Manufacturer: Delta
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Delta
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 47544
Studio: Delta
Theatrical Release Date: 1925
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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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