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Consistently voted one of the greatest films of all time and certainly one of the most exciting, this fictionalised account of the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution contains the celebrated sequence of the massacre on the Odessa steps. It's hard to imagine the impact of the cutting in this account of a sailors' mutiny. To the original audiences, it must have seemed like witnessing the birth pangs of cinema itself.

 

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Director Sergei Eisenstein
Starring Alexander Antonov, Grigori Alexandrov

 

Genre Silent Film

 

Country Russia Language SILENT   Year 1925

 

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Certificate PG   Length 74 mins   Label EUREK
Cat No EKA40011   Format DVD   Black & White
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Article - "Beautiful Spring; 10 Silent Classics" by John Davies
Monday 23rd September 2002

I hope with this selection both to challenge the prevailing notion of silent cinema as hopelessly primitive, and to encourage pleasurable discovery. Spurred by pioneers like the aptly named Lumiere brothers and Georges Melies, (whose fantasies seem sprinkled with mag...  View article in full

 

 

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