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Battleship Potemkin

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Aleksandr Antonov , Vladimir Barsky , Grigori Aleksandrov , Ivan Bobrov , Mikhail Gomorov
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Stylistically, The Battleship Potemkin serves as a revolutionary film, not only in its subject matter, but also in its unique use of montage. As a pioneer who championed a new purpose for cinema, Eisenstein proposed a "kino fist" approach to filmmaking, one in which the film attacks the viewer’s senses with symbolic metaphors, rhythmic editing, and highly-charged melodrama. Includes a rare documentary on Eisentein.

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Battleship Potemkin [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Aleksandr Antonov , Vladimir Barsky , Grigori Aleksandrov , Ivan Bobrov , Mikhail Gomorov
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatization of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of m...

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Que Viva Mexico [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Sergei Bondarchuk , Grigori Aleksandrov
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Hollywood's loss was Mexico's gain, as this glorious documentary will attest. Having failed to realize several projects in Hollywood, Russian film pioneer Sergei Eisenstein trekked to Mexico with producer Grigory Alexandrov and cameraman Eduard Tisse, and the famous writer Upton Sinclair as beneficiary. Their budget quickly ran out, and the film was never properly completed, but Alexandrov carefully assembled this version of Que Viva Mexico! in 1979, and the result is one of the most beautiful documentaries ever made. Although it was later criticized for presenting a fantasized view of Mexican culture, this remains a stunning example of Eisenstein's ability to meld people, politics, and ritual into a richly cinematic experience. Celebratory, socially alert, and at times even surreal, the film displays all of Eisenstein's revolutionary techniques while proving that his narrative style could have flourished in Hollywood. Instead, this marvelous film stands as a testament to what might have been. --Jeff Shannon

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Sergei Eisenstein Mexican Fantasy

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Alexandra Scheff , Grigori Aleksandrov , Sergei M. Eisenstein , Martín Hernández , David Liceága
Director: Oleg Kovalov
In 1930, legendary film pioneer Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin, October) arrived in Mexico to make "Que Viva Mexico," a film about the struggles, triumphs and tragedies of this unexpectedly rich and diverse country. Eisenstein's luminous images capture the heart and soul of this amazing land. When Eisenstein was compelled to return to Russia, he was forced to leave the film behind and was never permitted to finish his "lost masterpiece." Filmmaker Eisenstein biographer Oleg Kovalov used his insights into the late master's genius to create this thoughtful and contemplative interpretation of the film that might have been made.

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Battleship Potemkin [Blu-ray]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Alexander Antonov , Vladimir Barsky , Grigori Aleksandrov
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Sailors rebel on the Russian armored ship in 1905, sowing the seeds for anti-czarist revolution.

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Battleship Potemkin [VHS]

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Que Viva Mexico

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Sergei Bondarchuk , Grigori Aleksandrov , Mara Griy
Director: Grigori Aleksandrov , Sergei M. Eisenstein
Studio: Kino International Release Date: 04/03/2001 Run time: 85 minutes

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Strike

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Grigori Aleksandrov , Maksim Shtraukh , Mikhail Gomorov , I. Ivanov , Ivan Klyukvin
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein's "Strike," with Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane," mark the most outstanding cinematic debuts in the history of film. Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner and the Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation. This edition of "Strike" is digitally remastered from a mint-condition 35mm print made from the original camera negative and features new digital stereo music composed and performed by the Alloy Orchestra.

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Battleship Potemkin

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Aleksandr Antonov , Vladimir Barsky , Grigori Aleksandrov , Ivan Bobrov , Mikhail Gomorov
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Based on the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution, Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece "Battleship Potemkin" is often voted one of the ten greatest films ever made, this program includes a powerful musical score by N Kruikov.

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Battleship Potemkin (1925) [Remastered Edition]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Aleksandr Antonov , Vladimir Barsky , Grigori Aleksandrov , Ivan Bobrov , Mikhail Gomorov
The movie revolves around an uprising on board the Battleship Potemkin (Bronenoset Potemkin) in 1905. Conditions on the ship are unbearable, which in turn incites revolutionary fervor among the sailors, most notably within the character of Vakulinchik. After the ship's doctor declares rancid meat safe to eat, the sailors buy provisions at the canteen in a show of protest. The Admiral then orders all those who ate the borsch made with the meat to step under the cannons in a show of loyalty. Those who do not are covered under a tarp and ordered shot. Vakulinchik then implores his shipmates to rise up against those who oppress them, namely the officers of the ship. All the officers are killed and the ship is liberated. During the uprising, Vakulinchik dies. His body his placed on the docks in the Odessa harbor as a symbol of the revolution. The citizens of Odessa rally around his body and join the Potemkin in their revolt. Cossaks then come, in one of the most famous scenes of the film, and slaughter the helpless citizens on the steps leading to the harbor, effectively ending the revolt in Odessa. A fleet of battleships then comes to destroy the Potemkin.