Film at Yale and Yale Arts presents 100 Years of Battleship Potemkin, a centenary screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 masterpiece.
Preceded by an exhibition of materials related to the film, starting at 5:30pm in the lower level lobby, and followed by a talkback discussion.
Few films have had the global impact and influence of Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, which premiered a century ago on December 21, 1925. A dramatization of a 1905 revolt of sailors on a Black Sea battleship, Potemkin quickly became one of the most celebrated of all silent films, and a permanent centerpiece of discussions about film form, the relation between politics and cinema, historical representation in film, and much more. Please bring your thoughts about the film and your Potemkin-related anecdotes to our post-screening discussion!