Silent Movie Day: Battleship Potemkin featuring a new score by Pet Shop Boys
Director: Sergei Eisenstein Run Time: 75 min. Release Year: 1925 Language: Russian
Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Vladimir Barsky
Celebrate Silent Movie Day with the silent classic, featuring a new original score composed by Pet Shop Boys.
Film Details:
Odessa – 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin, the ship’s loyal crew contemplates the unthinkable – mutiny. Seizing control of the Potemkin and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors’ revolt becomes the rallying point for a Russian populace ground under the boot heels of the Czar’s Cossacks. When ruthless White Russian cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps, the most famous and most quoted film sequence in cinema history is born.