Battleship Potemkin

During the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin leads a mutiny against their tyrannical officers. Eisenstein’s landmark blend of art and politics brims with technical brilliance, and a pioneering approach to editing and montage.

A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere in December 1925, Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content. Battleship Potemkin is renowned for its dynamic compositional strength and editing of such frame-perfect precision that it’s hard not to be swept along. The set-piece massacre on the Odessa Steps still packs a sledgehammer punch.

First revealed at a free outdoor live performance and screening in front of an estimated 25,000 people in London’s Trafalgar Square on 12 September 2004, Pet Shop Boys’ score, performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer with orchestrations by Torsten Rasch, blends electronic beats with orchestral grandeur to create a rousing contemporary cinematic experience.

One of the great silent epics is enhanced even more with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s music. Performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker and orchestrated by Torsten Rasch, the soundtrack blends electronic beats with orchestral grandeur, offering a stirring contemporary twist on the classic masterpiece which had an indelible impact on film history.