Battleship Potemkin/Drifters (Blu-ray disc)

Double bill of silent features from the 1920s. 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925), masterpiece of Russian silent film pioneer Sergei M. Eisenstein, is a dramatised account of the naval mutiny and street riots at the sea port of Odessa that sparked off the 1905 Russian Revolution. When the crew of the Potemkin protests after being given rotten meat as rations, the captain responds by ordering the execution of the dissidents. Outrage at this injustice quickly ignites and the townspeople have soon surrounded the harbour in a mass demonstration - but the scene gives way to tragedy and brutality as the authorities move in to quell the uprising. In British documentary 'Drifters' (1929), which was influenced by and originally screened alongside 'Battleship Potemkin' in the UK, director John Grierson looks at the North Sea herring fleets and the men who worked them. The film pays particular attention to how the once traditional industry has become a more modern enterprise.

General

Studio:	BFI Pub
Release date:	November 2012
Movie released:	1929
Actors:	Grigori Alexandrov • Vladimir Barsky • Aleksandr Antonov • Mikhail Gomorov • Sergei M. Eisenstein • I. Bobrov • Aleksandr Levshin • N. Poltavtseva • Konstantin Fel'dman • Prokopenko
Contributors:	Sergei M. Eisenstein • Edouard Tisse • Vladimir Popov • N.F. Agadzhanova-Shutko • Edmund Meisel • Jason Singh
Directors:	Sergei M. Eisenstein • John Grierson
Dimensions:	170 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	•  DVD
Disks:	2
Region encoding:	Region B. This Blu-ray disk will play in all South African Blu-ray players.
Languages:	English
Age restriction:	PG
Categories:	DVD > Feature Film Blu-Ray > Feature Film
LSN:	X2E-E6F-YLE-3
Barcode:	5035673010587

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