![]() It was, he thought, “unquestionably one of the greatest motion pictures ever made” (this in 1926!) and the firm “might well consider securing the man responsible for it”.īattleship Potemkin is the film which brought Eisenstein, always a citizen of the world, to world attention. Selznick saw the film and wrote with great enthusiasm to his boss at MGM that a print should be obtained because it would be “very advantageous to have the organisation view it in the same way that a group of artists might study a Rubens or a Raphael”. In the US, it was seen by small groups of filmmakers and critics, and in one enticing account of a screening in the New York apartment of Gloria Swanson, it was projected onto one of Gloria’s satin sheets, when the absence of an available screen threatened to disappoint the eager but select audience.Īt such a screening, David O. The stories of its circulation are almost as mythical as its subject matter: it was banned as subversive in England and its circulation was highly restricted in the US, even before the implementation of the Hays Code. In this sense, it represents one of the most successful instances of niche marketing the world has ever seen. Independent filmmakers, restricted to limited exhibition outlets in a world of media conglomeration, can take heart from the fact that Battleship Potemkin, one of the most renowned films in the history of cinema and containing perhaps the best known sequence in the medium’s entire history, was initially seen only by small audiences of film society aficionados and trade unionists. ![]() Battleship Potemkin ( Bronenosets Potyomkin, 1925, USSR, 75 mins)ĭir: Sergei Eisenstein Writer: Sergei Eisenstein and Nina Agadzhanova Shutko Cinematography: Eduard Tisse Original music: Edmund Meisel and Dmitri Shostakovich Editor: Sergei Eisenstein Art Director: Vasili RakhalsĬast: Ivan Bobrov (Sailor), Beatrice Vitoldi (Woman with Baby Carriage), Nina Poltavseva (Woman with Pince-nez), Julia Eisenstein (Odessa Citizen), Grigori Aleksandrov (Chief Officer Giliarovsky), Aleksandr Antonov (Vakulinchuk), Vladimir Barsky (The Captain), Sergei Eisenstein (Ship Chaplain), Aleksandr Levshin (Petty Officer), Mikhail Gomarov (Sailor) ![]()
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