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Overview

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Writer:
Nina Agadzhanova (script)
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Release Date:
12 November 1926 (France) more
Genre:
Drama | History | War more
Plot:
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre. full summary | full synopsis
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Aleksandr Antonov ... Grigory Vakulinchuk - Bolshevik Sailor
Vladimir Barsky ... Commander Golikov
Grigori Aleksandrov ... Chief Officer Giliarovsky
Ivan Bobrov ... Young Sailor Flogged While Sleeping (as I. Bobrov)
Mikhail Gomorov ... Militant Sailor
Aleksandr Levshin ... Petty Officer
N. Poltavtseva ... Woman With Pince-nez
Konstantin Feldman ... Student Agitator
Prokopenko ... Mother Carrying Wounded Boy
A. Glauberman ... Wounded Boy
Beatrice Vitoldi ... Woman With Baby Carriage
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Brodsky ... Student
Julia Eisenstein ... Woman with Food for Sailors
Sergei M. Eisenstein ... Odessa Citizen
Andrei Fajt ... Recruit (as A. Fait)
Korobei ... Legless Veteran
Marusov ... Officer
Protopopov ... Old Man
Repnikova ... Woman on the Steps
Vladimir Uralsky
Zerenin ... Student
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Battleship Potemkin (UK) (USA)
Броненосец Потёмкин (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Bronomzidi Potiomkini (Soviet Union: Georgian title)
Potemkin (USA)
The Armored Cruiser Potemkin (USA)
The Battleship Potemkin (USA)
The Battleship Potyomkin (USA) (alternative transliteration)
Le cuirassé Potemkine (Belgium: French title) (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
El acorazado Potemkin (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
El cuirassat Potemkin (Spain: Catalan title) [ca]
La corazzata Potemkin (Italy) [it]
O Couraçado Potemkin (Portugal) [pt]
O Encouraçado Potemkin (Brazil) [pt]
Oklopnjaca Potemkin (Serbia) [sr]
Pancernik Potiomkin (Poland) [pl]
Pansarkryssaren Potemkin (Sweden) [sv]
Panserkrydseren Potemkin (Denmark) [da]
Panssarilaiva Potemkin (Finland) [fi]
Pantserkruiser Potemkin (Netherlands) [nl]
Panzerkreuzer Potemkin (Germany) [de]
Potemkin (Greece) [el]
Potemkin zirhlisi (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
To thorikton Potemkin (Greece) (reissue title) [el]
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Runtime:
75 min | Spain:70 min | Spain:77 min | USA:66 min | Argentina:80 min | Russia:71 min (DVD version) | Spain:68 min (DVD edition)
Country:
Soviet Union
Language:
Russian
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Certification:
Italy:(Banned) (1925 - 1960) | Italy:T (1960) | Canada:G (Ontario) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | South Korea:15 (1994) | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Finland:(Banned) (1930) | Finland:K-12 (1978) | Finland:K-16 (1952) | Germany:(Banned) (1933-1945) | Germany:12 | Netherlands:AL (video rating) | Norway:16 (original rating) | Portugal:17 (original rating) | Portugal:M/12 (DVD rating) | Portugal:M/16 (re-rating) (1974) | Spain:T | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (re-rating) (1987) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:Unrated
Filming Locations:
Odessa, Ukraine more
Company:
Goskino more

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Trivia:
"Potemkin" changed name four times. The original full name was "Knyaz Potemkin-Tavricheskiy". As a result of the uprising, the government renamed her "Panteleymon" in 1905. In April of 1917 the ship returned to the name "Potemkin-Tavricheskiy" (without "Knyaz" - prince), but in May 1917 the name was changed to "Borets za svobodu" (the Freedom Fighter). more
Goofs:
Continuity: During the Odessa Steps sequence as the mother walks with her son towards the oncoming troops, a long shot shows as she approaches, the soldiers halt one flight of stairs above the one she is on. In the next shot, however, the soldiers are marching down another flight of stairs as if they are going to walk right past her. Then in the next scene they have stopped again and are on the same flight of stairs as if they hadn't moved at all. more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in The Untouchables (1987) more

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20 out of 25 people found the following comment useful.
Vivid & Memorable, 19 December 2001
Author: Snow Leopard from Ohio

This classic is filled with vivid images that stay in your mind after you have watched it, and there is a lot to appreciate in the way that the key scenes were set up and photographed. The visuals are so impressive that the movie's imperfections are usually not so noticeable, and they don't keep it from being a memorable film.

The movie certainly deserves the praise that it gets both for the influence that it has had, and for some ideas that for the time were most creative. The famed 'Odessa Steps' sequence alone demonstrates both fine technical skill and a keen awareness of how to drive home an image to an audience. It deserves to be one of cinema's best remembered sequences. Some of the other scenes also demonstrate, to a lesser degree, the same kind of skill.

It says a lot for how effective all of the visuals are that so many viewers think so highly of "Battleship Potemkin" despite a story that is sometimes heavy-handed, and despite characters and acting that are both rather thin. These features might simply stem from the collectivist philosophy that lies behind the story, and they are obscured most of the time by Eisenstein's unsurpassed ability to present pictures that viewers will not forget.

Despite the flaws, this is a movie that most fans of silent films, and anyone interested in the history of movies, will want to see. There's nothing else in its era that's quite like it.

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