The Battleship Potemkin
(1998, original release: 1925)
Fiction
DVD
Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/RUSSIAN/BATTLESHIP
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chatsworth, CA : Corinth Films : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, [1998]
©1998
©1998
DESCRIPTION
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
6305090033 ID4574CODVD
LANGUAGE
Russian
NOTES
Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1925; restored in the Soviet Union in 1976
Re-creates the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses on a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians, reflecting the spirit of the times
Program notes by Rob Edelman on container
"A Corinth Video release."
Some credits from container and videocassette copy
Recorded in mono
Camera, Edward Tisse ; music, Dmitri Shostokovich
Alexander Antonov, Grigori Alexandrov, Vladimir Barski, Mikhail Gomorov, A. Levshin, Maxim Strauch
MPAA: Not rated
DVD format
Silent film with Russian intertitles, English subtitles and music score