Battleship Potemkin
Revolution is the only lawful, equal, effectual war. It was in Russia that this war was declared and begun.
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.
- Genre: Drama, History, War
- Studio: Mosfilm, Goskino USSR
- Keyword: panic, baby carriage, cossack, slaughter, massacre, rage, sailor, silent film, russian revolution (1917), revolt, imperial russia, insubordination, port city, soviet realism, maggots
- Cast: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Aleksandr Levshin