Cinematek : Battleship Potemkin

Cinematek : Battleship Potemkin

31/03 @ 19h00

Battleship Potemkin is considered one of the greatest films of all time. Russian director Sergei Eisenstein made this film at the request of the Soviet regime to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1905 Revolution. He chose to centre the action on the mutiny that broke out aboard the Potemkin, the warship of the Imperial Russian Navy. Furious at being fed nothing but rotten food and suffering from the policy of terror of their superiors, the crew launched a full-scale insurrection during which a number of officers were thrown overboard. The mutinous soldiers then decided to set sail for the port city of Odessa...

What makes this film unforgettable are Eisenstein's experimental editing techniques and remarkably tight, highly aesthetic cinematography. The staircase scene has become iconic: it shows the massacre of ordinary people, amongst whom a mother walking with her child in a baby carriage, being mercilessly gunned down by the soldiers marching in cadence.

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