film screening
Battleship Potemkin, 1925
by Sergei Eisenstein

Tuesday 9 March 2010 | Main Building 6 PM

1925 | B&W/Color | 69’

For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 masterpiece has remained the most influential silent film of all time. Engraved with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin, the ship’s loyal crew contemplates the unthinkable – mutiny. Seizing control of the Potemkin and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailor’s revolt become the rallying point for a Russian populace ground under the boot heels of the Czar’s Cossacks. When ruthless
White Russian cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps, the most famous and most quoted film sequence in cinema history is born.