The Battleship Potemkin

One of the most acclaimed films of all time, and certainly one of the artfully made/broadly influential propaganda pieces created to this day, Sergei Eisentstein‘s 1926 feature film The Battleship Potemkin presents an exhilarating (not to mention highly dramatized, sometimes outright fictionalized) depiction of the 1905 mutiny of a Russian battleship’s crew agains their Tsarist commanding officers. Eisenstein made cinematic history with his development of the montage concept, and his unflinching use of realistic violence.

Via Jess Nevins comes word that we can watch the entire thing, uninterrupted, on teh YooToobz. It’s the version with the Shostakovich score, too. Pretty awesome (in the traditional sense of the word, even)!

Posted by Meredith Yayanos on January 11th, 2012
Filed under Film, Propaganda, Revolutionary, Russia, Uber, Ye Olde

2 Responses to “The Battleship Potemkin”

  1. Nadya Says:
    January 14th, 2012 at 10:20 pm

    I love this film. I have vivid memories of watching the rotten meat ship deck scene while eating some really bad Chinese leftovers. It was… a multimedia experience.

  2. Meredith Yayanos Says:
    January 15th, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    LOL!