Poster Battleship Potemkin
The Russian Revolution (1917) launched a major creative period in
new Soviet Russia that emerged from it, but two areas stood out for its international influence, the arts (in painting highlighted Malevich Suprematism who took a step further cubism and abstraction) and the silent film .
The most influential Russian filmmakers Sergei Eisenstein was , reflecting a very innovative way for the Suppression of tsarist military apparatus against the people in this scene from the film Battleship Potemkin , recounting the events of the 1905 revolution in fleet Black Sea port city of Odessa.
In these images and in general in the Russian cinema of the 20's is of paramount importance the assembly sequences and planes , his great contribution to the history of cinema, with the aim not only tell the story through many planes inserted following a very marked rhythm, also seeks to viewer's feelings emerge and generate emotions.
Moreover, these films also had a didactic purpose (more than two thirds of the Russian population were illiterate), and political course since it is also a propaganda vehicle of the new Soviet regime, showing the just struggle of the people and the crew of the Potemkin against Tsarist tyranny (clear history of the October Revolution of 1917).
as you see in this small part (in total lasts longer than 7 minutes) from the known sequence of steps in Odessa, rhythm and emotion is achieved by alternating close-ups (faces, picture of the child) and general (soldiers, the masses running down the stairs) and making the viewer suffers because of the imminent collapse of the stroller, which adds to the fantastic music of Shostakovich.
There is only one word: Awesome . So much so that not infrequently has covered this part, perhaps the best known is in the movie which stars Kevin Costner and Sean Connery: The Untouchables .
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