Today is June 27 and on this date in history, in 1905, we witness the mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin in the unrest in the Russian Empire that year following the defeat in the Russo-Japanese War. This was the incident in Eisenstein's Battleship PotemkinI know that many get the vapors about this flick and I have it on tape but not DVD.
Actually it is very boring with a lot of blather by sailors railing about this or that. The Odessa Steps scene is the scene that all critics weep over, but actually it is a small part of the film.
This was Soviet propaganda because it survived the Stalin days. "Uncle Joe," as FDR so fondly called him, would have trashed this film if it were not officially approved.