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The Battleship Potemkin The film Battleship Potemkin was completed in 1925, eight years after the Russian revolution. In 1923 Trotsky noted: "The fact that we have so far, not taken possession of cinema shows how slow and uneducated we are .. This weapon, which cries out to be used, is the best instrument of propaganda" (Taylor, 1998 p.35). The new era called for new films that would be able to compete with Hollywood imports and support the communist regime. The answer was montage film a method developed by Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov and others. As other forms of art (Mayakovsky - literature) the new films were "as innovative and experimental as the times" (Petric 1987 p.1). The films were inspired by Italian Futurism (Marinetti), Constructivism as well as the first great film directors1. Eisenstein intended to film a whole chronicle of the 1905 revolution, but in the end he picked...

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