A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.
For all Potemkin's rabble-rousing propaganda, Eisenstein's aestheticism is everywhere apparent.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
29 Aug 2011
fresh:
The director displays a vivid imagination and an artistic appreciation of motion picture values.
– Mordaunt Hall,
New York Times,
29 Aug 2011
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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.