A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre.
Sergei M. Eisenstein (Director): Though Eisenstein wanted to make films for the common man, his intense use of symbolism and metaphor in what he called "intellectual montage" sometimes lost his audience. Though he made only seven films in his career, he and his theoretical writings demonstrated how film could move beyond its nineteenth-century predecessor--Victorian theatre-- to create abstract concepts with concrete images. Aleksandr Antonov: Aleksandr Antonov was born on February 13, 1898 in Moscow, Russian Empire as Aleksandr Pavlovich Antonov. He is known for his work on Battleship Potemkin (1925),Strike (1925) and Direktor (1938). He died on November 23, 1962 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes