Battleship Potemkin (1925)

The Odessa Steps Massacre

The Tsarist troops descend on the people of Odessa and brutally slaughter them for supporting the rebellion on the Potemkin.

Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein.

© Criterion 2013

Released in 1925 by Criterion.

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