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Potemkin

The Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatized version of the Battleship Potemkin uprising that occurred in 1905 when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive officers of the Tsarist regime. It has been called one of the most influential films of all time.

The Battleship Potemkin in The Gladiator[]

In an alternate in which the Soviet Union won the Cold War, the original version of The Battleship Potemkin was a valuable propaganda tool for the USSR. However, most people who viewed it also saw the artistic value of the film, despite its age and its flaws.[1]

A new version was filmed in 2097. Annarita Crosetti and Gianfranco Mazzilli saw an Italian dubbed version on a date. Despite it being in color with an enhanced budget and better special effects, Gianfranco found the remake to be hollow propaganda and boring.[2]

Eduardo Caruso acknowledged that the film had been remade in the home timeline. The remake was not well-received in his world either, and people preferred to watch the original.[3]

References[]

  1. The Gladiator, pgs. 156-157, HC.
  2. Ibid., pg. 158
  3. Ibid., pgs. 159-160.
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