Battleship Potemkin
Fri 5/1
1:00 pm
1925
Runtime:
66 minutes
Release Date:
December 24, 1925
Genre:
Drama
Admission- $10 General; $8 Students/Seniors. Weekend passes available.
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre.
Introduction and Q and A will be provided by Russian Professor Rachel Strauffer of Ferrum College.
Dr. Rachel Stauffer is Assistant Professor of Russian and Associate Director of International Programs at Ferrum College where she regularly teaches courses on Russian language, literature, culture and film. She publishes on a variety of topics on Russia, particularly on intersections of language and culture. A Roanoke native, she received her BA from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and her MA and PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Virginia. She has traveled multiple times to Russia, including a one-year stint as a security guard at the US Embassy in Moscow.
Director:
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Writers:
Nina Agadzhanova
Stars:
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov