‘Battleship Potemkin’ silent epic film opens in the Soviet Union 100 years ago today (Dec 24 1925)


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(Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24, 1925)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.