Catalog Num:
fm-b009-1976
Title:
The Battleship Potemkin
Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa. Director: Sergei Eisenstein. Black and white. Country: USSR. Subject: Czarist Russia, Bolshevik Revolution, war, Soviet montage technique.