‘Battleship Potemkin’ opens in the Soviet Union 90 years ago today (Dec 24 1925)


Video: 'Battleship Potemkin (1925) - Full Movie; English'

(Thursday, December 24, 1925, Christmas Eve)Battleship Potemkin, a Soviet silent film about the 1905 mutiny by the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin against their officers of the Tsarist regime, opened today in the Soviet Union.

Directed by S.M. Eisenstein, the film starred Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy and Grigori Aleksandrov.