Sergei Eisenstein’s most famous work and a key film of the Russian avant-garde.
Marking the centenary of Battleship Potemkin, Garage will show the 1976 restoration of the film featuring the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The film will be introduced by Naum Kleiman.
In Eisenstein’s work, the sailors’ mutiny acts as a metaphor for the 1917 revolution. Refusing to eat rotten meat, the battleship’s crew rebel against their commanders: they take over the ship and sail to Odessa under a red flag to support striking workers.
Radical in both content and form, the film was meant to affect the viewer directly through rhythm and montage, and thus marked a turning point in the history of cinema. It brought international acclaim to Sergei Eisenstein and laid the foundation for his later experiments in montage that still influence our visual world today: from advertising to the visual languages of music videos and digital media.
The restoration was directed by Dmitri Vasiliev with Naum Kleiman as scientific adviser.
Battleship Potemkin
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
USSR, 1925. 75 min.
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