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Battleship Potemkin
1925 film by Sergei Eisenstein / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the battleship, see Russian battleship Potemkin. For the album, see Battleship Potemkin (album). For the poster, see Battleship Potemkin (poster).
Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», romanized: Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 Soviet silent epic film produced by Mosfilm.[1] Directed and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein, it presents a dramatization of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers.
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Бронено́сец «Потёмкин» | |
Directed by | Sergei Eisenstein |
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Produced by | Jacob Bliokh |
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Music by | Edmund Meisel |
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Distributed by | Goskino |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
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In 1958, the film was voted on Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo. Battleship Potemkin is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time.[2][3][4] In the most recent Sight and Sound critics' poll in 2022, it was voted the fifty-fourth-greatest film of all time, and it had been placed in the top 10 in many previous editions.[5]