FILM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dialectic, Tarpaulin, Sergei Eisenstein
Document Summary
A combination of drama and propaganda, and an example of soviet montage style. The film is regarded as one of the most influential films ever made and one of the biggest masterpieces of cinema. The film was considered dangerous and banned in many countries, like uk and the us, for longer or shorter periods. In some countries the film was allowed to be seen but without composer edmund meisel"s music (that was regarded as to emotionally - and revolutionary - powerful). A film based on a real event, the mutiny of the crew of the russian battleship potemkin against their officers on june 14,1905, in the black sea. Produced by government production company mosfilm in moscow as a celebration of the. 20th anniversary of the first - failed - russian revolution, by the commemorative. Commission of the central executive committee in soviet russia in 1925.