Fresh
The most brilliant of all Soviet silent films.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Battleship Potemkin
Revolution is the only lawful, equal, effectual war. It was in Russia that this war was declared and begun.
1925 · 1h 15m · Not Rated
Drama, History, War
Directed by
Sergei Eisenstein
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Battleship Potemkin
Overview
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin revolt against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
Director and cast
- Sergei Eisenstein Director
- Aleksandr Antonov as Grigory Vakulinchuk
- Vladimir Barsky as Commander Golikov
- Grigori Aleksandrov as Chief Officer Giliarovsky
- Ivan Bobrov as Young Sailor
- Mikhail Gomorov as Militant Sailor
- Aleksandr Levshin as Petty Officer
- Beatrice Vitoldi as Woman With Baby Carriage
- Nina Poltavtseva as Woman With Pince-nez
- Konstantin Feldman Cast
- Prokhorenko Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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Tomatometer
Fresh
The cinema's first modernist... was the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein. As his most famous work, Battleship Potemkin, from 1925, shows, his analytical, quasi-scientific methods bore the mark of both aesthetic and political upheavals.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh
The director displays a vivid imagination and an artistic appreciation of motion picture values.
Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
Fresh
For all Potemkin's rabble-rousing propaganda, Eisenstein's aestheticism is everywhere apparent.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Fresh
It is a knockout.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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