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Considered one of the most important films in the history of silent pictures,
and possibly Eisenstein’s greatest work, Battleship Potemkin brought
Eisenstein’s theories of cinema art to the world in a powerful showcase. The
film tells the story of the mutiny on the Russian ship Prince Potemkin during
the 1905 uprising. It is a cinema classic, featuring the people of Odessa.
According to Naum Kleiman, film historian, Eisenstein saw the masses “as caviar, only heads, many many heads as a picture of the people...
He tried to see the face of the mass and he created this human face of the
masses from close-ups of different representatives of this mass... He tried to
humanize the masses.”
See Film footage of The Battleship Potemkin.
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See Film footage of Ivan the Terrible.
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