Eisenstein's 1925 communist propaganda film tells the story of a mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin in 1905. The mutiny aboard the Potemkin was part of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1905 and set the stage for the revolution that came in 1917. Eisenstein's film highlights the inequity between the working class sailors and the elite officers
Continue reading ➞ Battleship Potemkin (Бронено́сец Потёмкин) (1925)
Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera captures a day in the life of the Russian proletariat in 1920's Soviet Union. The quick sequences and endless jump cuts depict several soviet union cities, including: Odessa, Kharkov and Kiev.1 The structure is experimental for its time by incorporating a wide range of shots and avant-garde film techniques
Continue reading ➞ Man With a Movie Camera (Человек с кино-аппаратом) (1929)
