Battleship Potemkin (1925)

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Soviet Union
Feature Film
Original Title: Броненосец Потёмкин
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Writer: N.F. Agadzhanova-Shutko
Cinematographer: Eduard Tisse
Cast: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, I. Bobrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Aleksandr Levshin, N. Poltavseva, Konstantin Feldman, Prokopenko, A. Glauberman, Beatrice Vitoldi

Set to the stirring music of Dimitri Shostakovich, Eisenstein’s most acclaimed film, depicting the mutiny upon the titular battleship and its bloody aftermath, is an undeniably powerful and even moving experience, and is undoubtedly one cinema’s greatest action films, but it is let down somewhat by the rather melodramatic acting and some tremendously ridiculous, moustache-twirling villains. Iain.Stott