The Battleship Potemkin is on tonight at 10:00 on Turner classics (channel 42).
This movie was directed by Sergei Eisenstein and is considered one of the greatest movies of the silent film era.
You could almost also call this one of the great Russian propaganda efforts as it focused on the revolt of a crew against their evil officers and eventually caused a revolution against the Tsar and a massacre by Tsarist troops.
Eisenstein was also the man who directed Alexander Nevsky which was a warning to the Russian people in 1938 that the Russians would eventually invade Mother Russia.
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What's funny is that Goebbels cites Eisenstein's mastery with using film to incite emotion in the audience as his inspiration for his propaganda filmmaking. Great filmmaker, but with unintended consequences.
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I like your point, because I love this movie. But this is the infamous Odessa steps scene where Tsarist troops brutally repress a protest.
Imagine that your maybe starting to have some doubts about the Communist government after the revolution and you watch this film and your first thought is that compared to the Tsar the Communists aren't that bad.
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