

Revolution is the only lawful, equal, effectual war. It was in Russia that this war was declared and begun.
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin revolt against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
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Aleksandr Levshin
Petty Officer
Nina Poltavtseva
Woman with Pince-nez
Konstantin Feldman
Student Agitator
Prokhorenko
Mother Carrying Wounded Boy
A. Glauberman
Wounded Boy
Beatrice Vitoldi
Woman with Baby Carriage

Danylo Antonovych
Sailor

Iona Biy-Brodskiy
Student
Julia Eisenstein
Woman with Food for Sailors

Sergei Eisenstein
Odessa Citizen

Andrey Fayt
Recruit
Yuriy Korobeynikov
Legless Veteran
Marusov
Officer
Protopopov
Old Man
Repnikova
Woman on the Steps

Vladimir Uralskiy
Sailor
Zerenin
Student
Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo
Extra (uncredited)
Neil Tennant on It Couldn't Happen Here and Battleship Potemkin | BFI Q&A
Featurette · YouTube
2025 UK Re-release Trailer | Music by Pet Shop Boys
Trailer · YouTube
Mark Kermode reviews Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) | BFI Player
Featurette · YouTube
Battleship Potemkin Trailer 2011 HD Official
Trailer · YouTube