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Battleship Potemkin / Title on container: Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin , Soviet Union - 1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm) - 4 3/4 in.

"From the series "The year 1905"" Special features: 42-minute documentary "Tracing the Battleship Potemkin"; photo galleries. Full screen (1.33:1). 2005 restoration by Enno Patalas and Anna Bohn in association with the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Filmmuseum Berlin-Deutsche Kinemathek, the British Film Institute and Gosfilmkino. Originally released as a motion picture in 1925. Includes the original 1926 Edmund Meisel score, performed by the Deutsches Filmorchestra Babelsberg and conducted by Helmut Imig. Blu-ray disc will play only on Blu-ray disc players, Blu-ray disc computer drives and Playstation 3 game consoles.

Cinematographer, Eduard Tisse; music score, Edmund Meisel. Cinematographer, Eduard Tisse; music score, Edmund Meisel.

Members of the Proletkult Theaters; Sailors of the Black Sea Fleet; the Sebastopol Fisherman's Union and the Inhabitants of Odessa.

Dramatization of actual events in Czarist Russia (1905). Shows the fierce mutiny aboard the battleship "Prince Potemkin" and the bloody aftermath in Odessa, where the Czar's troops ruthlessly massacred hundreds of innocent civilians who had sympathized with the mutineers. The film is notable for its use of non-actors in roles.


Blu-ray; DTS Master Audio 5.1. This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.


Silent film; Russian or English intertitles with optional English subtitles.

Standard No.: 738329068127

Publisher. No.: K681 Kino International Corp.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Bronenoset͡s "Potemkin"
Bronenoset͡s "Potemkin"--Drama.
Russia. Voennyĭ flot.
Russia. Voennyĭ flot --Officers--Drama.

Subjects--Meeting Names:
Revolution (Russia : 1905-1907)

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1905-1907

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Armed Forces--Officers.
Mutiny--Russia--Drama.
Sailors--Russia--Drama.
Sailors.
Mutiny.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Russia (Federation)
Russia.
Odesa (Ukraine)--Drama.
Russia--History--Revolution, 1905-1907--Drama.
Ukraine--Odesa.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Motion pictures--Soviet Union.
War films--Soviet Union.
War films.
History.
Feature films.
Silent films.
Drama.
Historical films.
Historical films--Soviet Union.
Russian language films.
War films.
Silent films--Soviet Union.
Feature films--Soviet Union
Historical films.
Silent films.
Fiction films.
Feature films--Soviet Union.
Fiction films.
Foreign films.

LC Class. No.: PN1997 / .B38 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/72