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Battleship Potemkin

Bronenosets Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin is a landmark of cinema. BFMAF presents a hypnotic new restoration accompanied by Edmund Meisel’s flamboyant full orchestral 1926 score. The film dramatises a mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers.

Battleship Potemkin launches the Festival, and its thematic programme Ultramarine: The Sea as Political Space which will be introduced by Ilona Jurkonytė, Artistic Director of Kaunas International Film Festival, Lithuania.

If you only ever see one silent film, this is the one it should be. A masterpiece.
Empire Magazine

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Country

Russia

Year

1925

Duration

68 mins

Distributor

British Film Institute