Public Domain Movies | Battleship Potemkin
"Battleship Potemkin" is a dramatized retelling of the 1905 mutiny that occurred on the Russian battleship Potemkin. The crew of the Potemkin, led by the character Vakulinchuk, rebels against their oppressive officers after being served maggot-infested meat, a symbolic representation of the dehumanization and mistreatment of the working class by the ruling class.
The film is divided into five acts, each representing a different stage of the mutiny and its aftermath. Notably, the film's most famous sequence is the Odessa Steps sequence, a dramatic and highly influential portrayal of a massacre on the Odessa Steps involving civilians caught up in the unrest(1925).
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Stars: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
