Battleship Potemkin on Blu-Ray

Cole Smithey

Kino International

KINO INTERNATIONAL RELEASES

SERGEI EISENSTEIN'S BATTLESHIP
POTEMKIN

ON BLU-RAY

New York, April 8, 2010

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Kino International is proud to release Sergei
Eisenstein's BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925) on Blu-ray, with the original

Edmund
Meisel

orchestral score, now rendered by
the 55-piece Deutches Filmorchestra in DTS-HD
Master Audio 5.1.

Kino's Blu-ray edition of
this classic Soviet film will be
released on April 20, 2010, with a SRP of $34.95.

As special features, this
Blu-ray edition brings the 42-minute
documentary Tracing the Battleship

Potemkin

, about the
making
and restoration of the film, as well as two versions of the film: one
with English
intertiles and another with the original Russian cards (with optional
English
subtitles).

Russian Poster

Odessa – 1905. Enraged
with the deplorable conditions on board the
armored cruiser Potemkin, the ship's loyal crew contemplates the
unthinkable –
mutiny. Seizing control of the Potemkin and raising the red flag of
revolution,
the sailors' revolt becomes the rallying point for a Russian populace
ground
under the boot heels of the Czar's Cossacks. When ruthless White Russian
cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps,
the most
famous and most quoted film sequence in cinema history is born.

The revolting sailors For
eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece has remained the
most
influential silent film of all time. Yet each successive generation has
seen
BATTLESHIP

POTEMKIN subjected to censorship and
re-cutting, its unforgettable
power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from dubious
sources.

Until now. Kino is proud
to join the Deutsche Kinematek in association with
Russia's Goskinofilm, the British Film Institute, Bundesfilm Archive
Berlin,
and the Munich Film Museum in presenting this all-new restoration of
BATTLESHIP

POTEMKIN.
Dozens of missing shots have been replaced, and all 146 title cards
restored to
Eisenstein's specifications.

Odessa Stairs Still Edmund Meisel's
definitive 1926 score, magnificently rendered by
the 55-piece Deutches Filmorchestra in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, returns
Eisenstein's masterwork to a form as close to its creator's bold vision
as has
been seen since the film's triumphant 1925 Moscow premiere.

SPECIAL FEATURES

"Tracing the Battleship

Potemkin," a 42-minute
documentary on the making and restoration of the film

The restored film with
newly-translated English intertitles

The restored film with original Russian
intertitles (and
optional English subtitles)

The original 1926 Edmund Meisel score, performed
by the Deutsches
Filmorchestra, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Photo galleries

Sailor

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN

From the Series "The Year
1905"

Russia

1925

B&W/Color

71
Min.

Full-frame (1.33:1)

Directed by Sergei M.
Eisenstein

Screenplay by N.F.
Agadzhanova-Shutko

Head Cinematographer:
Eduard Tisse

Music by Edmund Meisel
(1926)

Courtesy of Ries &
Erler, Berlin

Adaptation and
Instrumentation by Helmut Imig

Performed by the
Deutsches Filmorchestra (2005)

Restored under the
direction of Enno Patalas in collaboration with
Anna Bohn

Presented in association
with Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für
Film und Fernsehen supported by Bundesarchiv, Berlin; British Film
Institute,
London;

Gosfilmofond, Moscow;
Film Museum, Munich

Licensed by Transit Film

Music (P)

Ries & Erler

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