Battleship Potemkin

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Soviet film film silent film

Battleship Potemkin is a landmark 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, renowned for its innovative montage editing and its influential depiction of the 1905 mutiny aboard a Russian battleship.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Soviet film → film → silent film →
bannedIn	France → United Kingdom → United States →
basedOn	1905 mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin →
character	Grigory Vakulinchuk →
cinematographyBy	Eduard Tisse →
countryOfOrigin	Soviet Union →
criticalReception	acclaimed as one of the greatest films of all time →
depicts	1905 Russian Revolution events → mutiny aboard a Russian battleship →
director	Sergei Eisenstein →
distributor	Goskino →
famousImage	baby carriage on the Odessa Steps →
famousScene	Odessa Steps sequence →
filmMovement	Soviet montage cinema →
filmTechnique	montage editing →
format	black-and-white film →
genre	drama film → propaganda film →
hasColor	black and white →
historicalContext	prelude to the 1917 Russian Revolution →
includedIn	UNESCO Memory of the World Register →
influenced	Alfred Hitchcock → Brian De Palma → Francis Ford Coppola →
leadActor	Aleksandr Antonov →
listedIn	Sight & Sound greatest films polls → Vatican list of important films →
musicBy	Dmitri Shostakovich → Edmund Meisel →
notableFor	influential film editing techniques → innovative use of montage →
originalLanguage	Russian →
premiereLocation	Moscow →
productionCompany	Goskino →
reasonForBan	perceived as revolutionary propaganda →
releaseDate	1925-12-21 →
releaseYear	1925 →
restored	multiple restored versions with different scores →
runningTime	approximately 75 minutes →
screenwriter	Nina Agadzhanova → Sergei Eisenstein →
setting	Black Sea → Odessa →
sound	silent with musical accompaniment →
timePeriodDepicted	1905 →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Sergei Eisenstein → Soviet montage school →	notableWork
1905 Russian Revolution ("Potemkin mutiny") →	hasPart
Imperial Russian Navy ("Potemkin") →	notableShip
Imperial Russian Navy ("mutiny on battleship Potemkin") →	significantEvent