Battleship Potemkin (1925) | Directed by Sergei Eisenstein - Full Movie

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Бронено́сец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against its officers.

Battleship Potemkin was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. In 2012, the British Film Institute named it the eleventh-greatest film of all time.

Directed by: Sergei Eisenstein
Written by: Nina Agadzhanova, Sergei Eisenstein: Intertitles; uncredited: Nikolai Aseyev, Sergei Tretyakov
Produced by: Jacob Bliokh
Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy, Grigori Aleksandrov
Cinematography: Eduard Tisse, Vladimir Popov (Uncredited)
Edited by: Uncredited: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Music by: Various, including, Edmund Meisel (original 1925 score), Nikolai Kryukov (1950 score), Chris Jarrett (1985 soundtrack), Eric Allaman (1986 soundtrack), Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe (2005 score)
Michael Nyman (2011 soundtrack), Edison Studio (2017 soundtrack)
Production company: Mosfilm
Distributed by: Goskino
Release date: 21 December 1925 (USSR)
Running time: 75 minutes
Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Silent film, Russian intertitles