The film’s script was originally titled “The Year 1905”, in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the first Russian revolution of 1905-1907. It premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre. The film portrayed a real historical event – the mutiny of the warship “Prince Potemkin Tavrichesky”. S. Eisenstein used to say that his film’s action was one of a drama, but it was structured as a chronicle. For quite a long time this motion picture had been lauded as a masterpiece of the Soviet documentary cinema, although the film’s acting element is obvious. The famous Odessa Steps, the pram with a baby, the insurgent sailors on the ship, the hand-painted banner over the battleship – these and many other sequences of the legendary motion picture were later used as film citations, were included in every film-directing textbook, and generated numerous parodies. The film was sound-tracked in 1930.
This masterpiece by S. Eisenstein was voted the best of 100 best films, by an international poll of critics in 1978 (conducted by the Italian publishing house “A. Mondadori”, Milan).



Awards:
• Gold Medal at the Paris Fair, 1926


Special features:
• Filmographie
• Photo album
• Soon on DVD:
» Collection: "Film School" (Kinoshkola)
» Collection Gorkiy film studios
» Collection: "Nikita Mikhalkov. Selected" (Nikita Mihalkov. Izbrannoe)

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Stsenarij filma nazyvalsya "1905-j god" i byl posvyaschen 20-letiyu pervoj russkoj revolyutsii 1905-1907 gg. Premera sostoyalas v Bolshom teatre. V osnove filma - realnoe istoricheskoe sobytie o vosstanii na bronenostse " Knyaz Potemkin Tavricheskij". Sam S. Ejzenshtejn govoril o filme, chto on dejstvuet kak drama, no postroen kak hronika. Dolgoe vremya kartinu nazyvali shedevrom sovetskogo dokumentalnogo kino, hotya igrovaya stihiya kartiny ochevidna. Znamenitaya Odesskaya lestnitsa, kolyaska s mladentsem na nej, vosstavshie matrosy na korable, raskrashennyj ot ruki krasnyj flag nad bronenostsem - eti i mnogie drugie epizody legendarnoj kartiny razoshlis na kinotsitaty, voshli vo vse hrestomatii rezhisserskogo masterstva, i porodili mnozhestvo parodij. Kartina byla ozvuchena v 1930 g.
Film S. Ejzenshtejna priznan pervym sredi sta luchshih filmov po oprosu kinovedov mira v 1978 g. (opros proveden italyanskim izdatelstvom " A. Mondadori", Milan).


Nagrady:
• Zolotaya medal na Parizhskoj vystavke, 1926


Dopolnitelnye materialy (Bonus-trek):
• Filmografiya rezhisyora Ejzenshtajna
• Fotoalbom
• Smotrite na DVD:
» Kollektsiya: "Kinoshkola"
» Iz kollektsii kinostudii im. Gorkogo
» Kollektsiya: "Nikita Mihalkov. Izbrannoe"

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