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Product Description ------------------- This film classic about the 1905 Russian Revolution dramatizes the mutiny of the sailors of the Battleship Potemkin and the subsequent massacre of the innocent civilians who sympathized with them. The silent film features a musical soundtrack by Edmund Meisel. Eisenstein's innovative editing techniques in this masterpiece have influenced directors from mainstream Hollywood to the avant-garde. Director Sergei Eisenstein Star Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Goronov Special Features: Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: 5.1 Stereo - English Additional Release Material: Text/Photo Gallery Runtime: 69 minutes Year of Release: 1925. Set Contains: ------------- An extraordinary accomplishment, Kino Internationals restoration of Sergei Eisensteins 1925 masterpiece Battleship Potemkin has made the film more glorious than ever. Working with the Deutsche Kinematek, British Film Institute, Bundesfilm Archive Berlin, and the Munich Film Museum, Kinos effort was to return Battleship Potemkin as closely as possible to Eisensteins original cut, as originally seen by Moscow audiences during its world premiere run. What happened after that, according to the German restoration team extensively interviewed in an engrossing documentary ("Tracing Battleship Potemkin") on one of the two discs in this set, was that the films very negative was re-cut by German censors and others. (Its likely, the team says, that Eisenstein himself secretly supervised the German cut to accommodate demands while also keeping personal control over the films dramatic flow. What this means is that Eisenstein probably ended up with two authentic versions of Battleship Potemkin.) "Tracing Battleship Potemkin" goes on to detail the extensive number of s long lost from constant authorized and unauthorized re-cuts in the last 80 years, and how many of those s have been returned. Indeed, the film is all the more powerful and lyrical with a number of key scenes (especially the famed "Odessa steps" sequence) filled out and shaded with emotional nuance. But theres more: a glimpse at numerous stills from s that Eisenstein himself left out of the first cut (these have not been reintroduced in the film itself), two versions of the film with English and original Russian intertitles (with English subtitles), and the original, monumental score by Edmund Meisel (composed for the German version) make this Battleship Potemkin a brilliant experience. --Tom Keogh