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BATTLESHIP POTEMKIK
U.S.S.R.. 1925
5 reels
production :
director of production :
direction and editing i
story and first treatment i
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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR : ASSISTANTS
CAMERA ASSISTANT: ART DIRECTOR :
1st Goskino
Jacob Bliokh
Sergei M. Eisenstein
N. Agadjanovoi
Eduard Tisse
Grigori Alexandrov
A. Antonov, M. Gomorov, M. Shtraukh,
A. Levshin
V. Popov
Vasili Rakhals
CAST
The Sailor Vakulinchuk Captain Golikov Lieutenant Giliarovski Woman on the steps Officer .. Recruit
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Sailors of the Red Navy
Citizens of Odessa
Members of the Proletkult Theatre
A. Antonov
Vladimir Barski
Grigori Alexandrov
Repnikova
Marusov
I. Bobrov
A. Fait
Together with Birth of a Nation and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Potemkin is one of the most important films in the history of the silent cinema. It is regarded by many as the greatest work that Eisenstein produced, and at the same time the best illustration of the technique perfected in the silent Russian films. On this technique Eisenstein has developed a theory of aesthetics of the film which he has outlined in numerous articles and in his books "The Film Sense" and "Film Form". He argued that the film as an art consists in the art of editing, in the rhythm established by joining together moving images of differing lengths, and differing subject content. Believing with Kuleshov — the leading theorist of the left-wing film directors of the revolutionary period — that in every art there exists firstly the material, and secondly a method of composing that material, Eisenstein was (in his silent films at least) primarily concerned with the second of these considerations. He recognised fully the value of the wellknown experiment that Kuleshov made with the actor Mosjoukine, when he joined a shot of the actor showing him with his mouth open, together with a
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