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Battleship Potemkin

Bronenosets Potemkin

audiovisual digital film film core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Sergei Eisenstein, director

Canon Rationale

A core silent-cinema and montage landmark, included as a watchable film rather than as a general Eisenstein or Soviet montage topic.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 52.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Battleship Potemkin'.
  • institutional list: BFI, 'Battleship Potemkin'.
  • review essay: Helen Grace, 'Battleship Potemkin,' Senses of Cinema, March 2000.

Audit Flags

version dependency

Completion unit: watch the film, preferably in a restored edition. The evidence links justify inclusion; they are not the thing being tracked.

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