Lecture: Battleship Potemkin / Броненосец Потёмкин

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As written on Meetup.

Note: The screening is preceded by a 25 minute lecture by film critic Kevin Toma, part of LAB111's Manufacturing Consent series. He’ll explore the ideas about cinema and propaganda behind its famous editing, place the film within the political context of the Soviet Union, and trace *Potemkin*’s enormous influence. He’ll also look at the many different soundtracks that have accompanied this originally silent film over the past hundred years.

Directed by: Sergei Eisenstein
Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Runtime: 1h 14m (74 minutes)
Year: 1925

In 1905, the crew of a Russian battleship refuse their rations of rotten meat, and a shipboard mutiny becomes the spark for an uprising in the port of Odessa. Eisenstein built the film as a demonstration of montage, the idea that meaning comes from the collision of shots rather than from any single one, and the technique reshaped how films everywhere were cut.

Language: Silent with English subtitles
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmoEXXzbQ64
Info: https://www.lab111.nl/movie/battleship-potemkin/
Tickets: https://tickets.lab111.nl/labcinema/nl/flow_configs/webshop/steps/start/show/1309565

When: Saturday 26/09/26 at 19:00
Meet at the bar of LAB111 at 19:00. We will enter the cinema shortly before the start time. Please do not be late.

Film starts: 20:00

Where: LAB111, Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam, Netherlands
Auditorium: LAB 8½

We hope to see you there! 🎬