Battleship Potemkin

  • 1925
  • 1h 6min
  • Not Rated

Original title: Bronenosets Potyomkin

Drama, History, Thriller

  • Sergei Eisenstein
  • Nina Agadzhanova, Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Nikolay Aseev, Sergey Tretyakov
  • Mosfilm
  • Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Aleksandr Levshin, Nina Poltavtseva, Konstantin Feldman, Prokhorenko, A. Glauberman

  • Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», romanized: Bronenosets «Potyomkin»,), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 Soviet silent epic film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein, it presents a dramatization of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers.

    In 1958, the film was voted on Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo. Battleship Potemkin is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time. In the most recent Sight and Sound critics' poll in 2022, it was voted the fifty-fourth-greatest film of all time, and it had been placed in the top 10 in many previous editions.