Just the one title of interest being released on 29th April 2011.
Film: Battleship Potemkin
Country of Production: Soviet Union
Sergei Eisenstein’s influential masterpiece about the navy mutiny that sparked off the Russian Revolution premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre on December 24 1925 and was released in the Soviet Union in January 1926. It was famously banned in the UK by the BBFC until 1954 when it was released to UK cinemas with an X certificate. Now Battleship Potemkin is to be reissued by the BFI in a restoration by Deutsche Kinemathek, with Edmund Meisel's original score, played by the 55-piece Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg and conducted by Helmut Imig.
The Deutsche Kinemathek restoration, which brings Potemkin as near to the original version as has ever been seen, comprises 1,372 shots - 15 more than the previous sound version restoration in 1976 - and replaces scenes particularly from the Odessa Steps sequence that were cut by censors following the film’s premiere in 1925. For the first time, the film’s 146 title cards have also restored to the filmmaker’s specifications.
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.
Wow!!Great job.Really.
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