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Sight and Sound Directors’ Poll: Greatest Films of All Time

Battleship Potemkin

1h 14m

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein • 1925 • Soviet Union

This incredibly influential Soviet silent film depicts a crew mutiny on the Russian Battleship Potemkin.

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