Battleship Potemkin Articles

Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein "Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking" (January 25 — February 14, 2008) at New York City's Film Society of Lincoln Center: "Although early film shows took place in Russia soon after the invention of cinema (Maxim Gorky's book In the Kingdom of Shadows, published July 4, 1896, is one of the most beautiful early descriptions of cinema), continuous, serious film [...]

Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin: The Odessa Steps Massacre The 55th Berlin Film Festival will present a reconstructed version of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 classic Battleship Potemkin, considered by many film scholars one of — if not the — greatest motion picture ever made. Battleship Potemkin was originally commissioned by the Russian communist leaders to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Odessa uprising, during which mutinous sailors [...]