FILM IN FOCUS: Battleship Potemkin
FILM IN FOCUS: Battleship Potemkin
Describing the violent repression of the Czarist troops, the Odessa steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) is perhaps the most famous sequence in the history of film editing. In it, the bystanders who have come to cheer on the sailors aboard the ship are brutally massacred by Cossacks.
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