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Battleship Potemkin ()

Bronenosets Potyomkin (original title)
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In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
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Grigory Vakulinchuk
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Commander Golikov
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Chief Officer Giliarovsky
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Young Sailor Flogged While Sleeping (as I. Bobrov)
Mikhail Gomorov ...
Militant Sailor
Aleksandr Levshin ...
Petty Officer
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Woman With Pince-nez (as N. Poltavtseva)
Konstantin Feldman ...
Student Agitator
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Mother Carrying Wounded Boy
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Wounded Boy
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Woman With Baby Carriage
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Daniil Antonovich ...
Sailor
Iona Biy-Brodskiy ...
Student (as Brodsky)
Julia Eisenstein ...
Woman with Food for Sailors
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Odessa Citizen (as Sergei M. Eisenstein)
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Recruit (as A. Fait)
Korobey ...
Legless Veteran
Marusov ...
Officer
Protopopov ...
Old Man
Repnikova ...
Woman on the Steps
Zerenin ...
Student
Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo ...
Extra (uncredited)

Directed by

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Sergei Eisenstein ... (as S.M. Eisenstein)

Written by

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Nina Agadzhanova ... (script by) (as N. F. Agadzhanovoy-Shutko)
 
Sergei Eisenstein ... (re-writes) (uncredited)
 
Grigoriy Aleksandrov ... (re-writes) (uncredited)
 
Nikolay Aseev ... (intertitles) (uncredited)
 
Sergey Tretyakov ... (intertitles) (uncredited)

Produced by

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Yakov Bliokh ... producer (as YA. M. Bliokh)

Music by

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Eric Allaman ... (1986)
The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra ... (2011)
Del Rey & The Sun Kings ... (2007)
Yati Durant
Chris Jarrett ... (1985)
Nikolai Kryukov ... (1950)
Chris Lowe
Edmund Meisel ... (Berlin premiere) (as Meisel)
Dmitri Shostakovich ... (1975)
Neil Tennant

Cinematography by

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Eduard Tisse ... lead cinematographer
Vladimir Popov ... (uncredited)

Editing by

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Grigoriy Aleksandrov ... (uncredited) (re-issue)
Sergei Eisenstein ... (uncredited)

Editorial Department

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Sala Deinema ... work print editor: Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin
Ron Heidt ... title editor
Erika Schmidt ... negative cutter: Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin
Gerhard Ullmann ... colorization
Jay Leyda ... assistant editor (uncredited)

Art Direction by

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Vasiliy Rakhals ... (uncredited)

Production Management

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Brian Shirey ... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Grigoriy Aleksandrov ... assistant director (as G. Aleksandrov)

Art Department

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Sergey Datskevich ... poster artist: 1963
Anton Lavinsky ... poster artist
Alexander Rodchenko ... poster artist
Georgii Stenberg ... poster artist
Lidiya Stenberg ... poster artist: 1935
Vladimir Stenberg ... poster artist

Sound Department

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Evgeniy Kashkevich ... sound recordist (1950 re-issue)

Music Department

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Jackson Del Rey ... music producer / musician: guitar, synthesizer
Helmut Imig ... conductor: Deutsches Filmorchestra Babelsberg / instrumentation: Edmund Meisel's 1926 score / music adaptor: Edmund Meisel's 1926 score
Jacquie James ... backing vocalist
Meg Maryatt ... musician: piano solo
Max O'Leary ... musician: trumpet
Club Foot Orchestra ... performers
Jean Sudbury ... musician: violin

Additional Crew

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Aleksandr Antonov ... assistant to director (as A. Antonov)
Anna Bohn ... reconstruction collaborator
Mikhail Gomorov ... assistant to director (as M. Gomorov)
S. Kazakov ... supervisor (1950 reissue)
A. Kotoshev ... administrator
A.P. Kryukov ... administrator
Aleksandr Levshin ... assistant to director (as A. Levshin)
Enno Patalas ... reconstruction director
Maksim Shtraukh ... assistant to director (as M. Shtraukh)
Bret Wood ... title designer
Sergei Yutkevich ... artistic director: in 1976 redaction
Herzl Effensachs ... director: marine sequences (uncredited)

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Plot Summary

Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa. Written by Konstantin Dlutskii

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Taglines Revolution is the only lawful, equal, effectual war. It was in Russia that this war was declared and begun. See more »
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Also Known As
  • Броненосец «Потемкин» (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • Bronomzidi Potiomkini (Soviet Union, Georgian title)
  • Броненосец Потёмкин (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • Battleship Potemkin (United States)
  • The Battleship Potemkin (United States)
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  • 75 min
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Did You Know?

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Trivia The flag seen flying on the ship after the crew had mutinied is white, which is the color of the tsars, but this was done so that it could be hand-painted red (the color of communism) on the celluloid. Since this is a black-and-white film, if the flag had been red it would have shown as black in the film. The flag was hand-tinted red for 108 frames by director Sergei Eisenstein for the film's premier. See more »
Goofs In the Imperial squadron near the end of the film, there are close-ups of triple gun turrets of Gangut-class dreadnought. It possibly was made this way to show the power of Imperial fleet, but battleships of 1905 were much smaller pre-dreadnoughts, with twin turrets only, just like "Potemkin". "Ganguts" entered service in 1914. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Seeds of Freedom (1943). See more »
Quotes Sailor: Shoulder to shoulder. The land is ours. Tomorrow is ours.
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