Berlin Film Festival 2005: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
The 55th Berlin International 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 rioted at that Ukrainian port. The massacre of the protesters at the Odessa Steps is still shown in film schools all over the world as a classic example of montage — the art of editing used for greater dramatic effect.
The more rabid ideologues within the the Soviet government may not have thought so, but the film’s message is so effective that [...]
