Synopsis Of The Battleship Potemkin

Titutlo: Battleship Potemkin

Direction: Sergei Eisenstein

Production: Jacob Bliokh

Script: Nina Agadzhanova and Sergéi Eisenstein.

Music: Edmund Meisel and Nikolai Krinkov.

Photography: Eduard tisse

Mounting: Sergei M. Eisenstein

Distribution: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskij, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Aleksandr Levshin, Beatrice Vitoldi and Julia Eisenstein

Country: Soviet Union

Year: 1925

Duration: 77 minutes

"The Battleship Potemkin" is the title of the film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, based on a real and historical event, about the mutiny that took place in a Russian battleship named "Potemkin", due to the poor quality of life that its crew members had, who decided to rebel against the mistreatment suffered after they were given meat rotten to eat, and that's how they ended up throwing their superiors overboard and taking over the ship, while the Odessans rise up in support of The sailors, after the death of the leader of the rebellion, Vakulinchuk, it is here where one of the most remembered events of this confrontation occurs, with the death of a large number of civilians on the famous Odessa stairway, meanwhile Russian army ships are given the task of ending the mutiny that arose in the battleship Potemkin.

The film "The Battleship Potemkin" is the most important representation of the Soviet school, in which the purpose was to create in the viewer, through of the films, the Soviet nationalist identity, a purpose that this film achieves with great success, since, reminding people of a historical fact in which so many people died and so cruelly at the hands of the tsarist army, the Pro-Soviet ideology believes in them, that is, that the new regime is the best option, it's good; When the film is seen taking into account the historical, ideological and social context of that time in the newly created Soviet Union, we can appreciate the film in a very different way than we would do it without knowing this type of information, indisputably the most prominent element of the film is It is precisely this ideology that the Russian communist government wanted its population to adopt, and what better way to achieve it than through the cinema, a means of communication that was in full swing, and that is why we can consider Soviet cinema as a 100% propaganda cinema in favor of the regime communist.