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Title: Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin)
Date: February 29, 2008 - 7PM
Location: COPYSHOP KNOXVILLE (317 N Gay St, Knoxville TN)
Free
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Year: 1925
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Subs: English
Runtime, min: 75
Genre: Drama / History / War
Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. It presents a dramatised version of the Battleship Potemkin uprising that occurred in 1905 when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive officers of the Tsarist regime.
Potemkin has been called one of the most influential films of all time, and was named the greatest film of all time at the World's Fair at Brussels, Belgium, in 1958.
This film is available for any use in the Public Domain.
Links
» http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battleship_Potemkin
» http://www.archive.org/details/BattleshipPotemkin