The Battleship Potemkin, written by Nina Agadzhanova and directed by Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein

Rating: 9/10 (26 February 2015)

The Battleship Potemkin, written by Nina Agadzhanova and directed by Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, is a film inspired by actual events that occurred in the port of Odessa, Ukraine today, during the week of June 26, 1905. Everything starts when sailors boat, they decide to revolt from the maltreatment inflicted by the officers, to be forced to eat rotten and maggoty meat.
Being a silent film, his drawings and pictures are very expressive, representing the class struggle against oppression. It opens in early 1925 Russian revolution, based on the facts that surrounded the Potemkin during the failed revolution of 1905, to make way for 1917, which did succeed.
Another significant detail in the film is the music. It written by Edmund Meisel and Dimitri Shostakovich, rhythmically adapted to the dynamic editing of the film. It was performed by an orchestra hall and was subject to government censorship at the time it was composed. In several scenes, you can hear the strains of the Marseillaise, nowadays national anthem of France, which is a revolutionary battle song and hymn to freedom.
This film shows the importance of visual information. If a vast majority of human communication is nonverbal, pictures speak louder than words and the Battleship Potemkin, is the perfect reminder, demonstrating that the silent film is not a dead genre, quite the contrary, they are masterpieces serve as inspiration for new movies plays and stories.