Battleship Potemkin

A special centenary re-release of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated score by Pet Shop Boys.

“The sea, the city of Odesa, the battleship, the monumental staircase, the townspeople, the Cossacks. ‘I unleashed the conflict between these elements,’ Eisenstein told me. ‘And so, starting from these places and these objects, I built the story – simply by standing at the top of the staircase.’” Hans Richter

A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content. Battleship Potemkin shines with the magical ability to make us feel the air, the warmth and the world created by Eisenstein to celebrate the the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s first revolution.