Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», tr. Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 Soviet silent epic film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein, it presents a dramatization of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against its officers.

For the battleship, see Russian battleship Potemkin. For the album, see Battleship Potemkin (album). For the poster, see Battleship Potemkin (poster).

Battleship Potemkin
Original Soviet release poster
Бронено́сец «Потёмкин»
Directed bySergei Eisenstein
Written by
  • Nina Agadzhanova
  • Sergei Eisenstein
  • Intertitles; uncredited:
  • Nikolai Aseyev
  • Sergei Tretyakov
Produced byJacob Bliokh
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by
Music byEdmund Meisel
Production
company
Mosfilm
Distributed byGoskino
Release date
  • 21 December 1925 (1925-12-21)
Running time
71 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
Languages
  • Silent film
  • Russian intertitles

In 1958, the film was voted on Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo. Battleship Potemkin is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time. In the most recent Sight and Sound critics' poll in 2022, it was voted the fifty-fourth-greatest film of all time, and it had been placed in the top 10 in many previous editions.

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