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Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin

Bronyenosyets Potyomkin

Sergei Eisenstein


  • Country: Soviet Union
  • Year: 1925
  • Language: Silent
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  • Runtime: 75 min.

Sergei Eisenstein's earth-shaking agitprop classic, taking inspiration from a real-life mutiny on a Russian naval vessel prior to the aborted 1905 revolution, sought to remake cinema as a revolutionary art form with Eisenstein's principle of montage, an editing strategy that aims for both maximum visceral impact and politicized intellectual revelation.

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screening times

    • Sunday October 10
    • 12:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3
    • Thursday November 4
    • 3:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox Cinema 4

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

Sergei Eisenstein's earth-shaking agitprop classic, taking inspiration from a real-life mutiny on a Russian naval vessel prior to the aborted 1905 revolution, sought to remake cinema as a revolutionary art form with Eisenstein's principle of montage, an editing strategy that aims for both maximum visceral impact and politicized intellectual revelation. As the townspeople of Odessa join with the rebellious sailors against the Tsar's merciless forces, Eisenstein mirrors the clash between classes as a collision between individual shots, a "dialectical" method that both propels the film's dynamic narrative and creates a cinematic calculus of oppression and revolution—a technique that reaches its peak in the massacre on the Odessa Steps, perhaps the most quoted sequence in film history.

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