DCP | 1925 | Directed by Sergei Eisenstein | Soviet Union | 75 minutes
100 years of Battleship Potemkin
A centenary screening at Yale of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 masterpiece, free and open to the public
December 9 at 7 pm in HQ L01 (Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York St., lower level)
Preceded by an exhibition of materials related to the film, starting at 5:30 in the lower level lobby, and followed by a talkback discussion
Few films have had the global impact and influence of Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, which premiered a century ago on December 21, 1925. A dramatization of a 1905 revolt of sailors on a Black Sea battleship, Potemkin quickly became one of the most celebrated of all silent films, and a permanent centerpiece of discussions about film form, the relation between politics and cinema, historical representation in film, and much more. Please bring your thoughts about the film and your Potemkin-related anecdotes to our post-screening discussion!
Sponsored by the Film and Media Studies Program, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the European Studies Program. Digital version of the restored film, with Edmund Meisel’s legendary musical score, provided by Kino Lorber.