This Soviet uprising holds a biased and personal narrative, but it is ultimately sensational in grasping your heed to experience the revolution. By intercutting shots of the ships crew, the officers, and the. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing. Citizen Kane, Rocky, Scarface and Commando all use montages, if in a slightly less intensive form than its Russian creators intended. Eisensteins film Battleship Potemkin is one of the most famous examples of this technique. This technique changed the way film integrated time and space and evolved into the ‘montage’ we know today and that is seen so much throughout cinema history. The hero here was ‘the people’ and many of the film’s leading characters weren’t given names in an aim to unify the main players. As such his films rarely focused on one protagonist alone. This jarring style was also used as a medium through which to ‘educate’ the working classes. Sergei Eisenstein’s work ( Battleship Potemkin, most famously) was inspired by Kuleshov and refused to spoonfeed audiences, cutting between random imagery to make viewers decipher an idea or feeling. 4 Soviet Montage used the power of editing to manipulate the emotions of the spectator and rather than narrative structure or character development they. It was a new style of editing that spurned capitalism by going against the smooth, romantic editing prolific at the time and generally stirred up the creative juices of directors everywhere. The director intercut shots of faces with related images to generate an emotional response in his spectators. Produced in 1925 and premiered in January 1926, the film was a watershed moment in the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. His most famous films included Battleship Potemkin (1925). The Battleship Potemkin ( Bronenosets Potmkin) is Sergei Eisenstein’s second feature film. It all kicked off when Russian director-cum-theorist Lev Kuleshov realised that an actor’s expression wasn’t enough to convey a specific idea, therefore juxtaposed images must. Sergei Eisenstein was an influential Russian filmmaker and leader of the Soviet montage movement. What is it? Even if you’ve never seen a 1920s Russian film (what have you been doing with your life?), you’ll still have noticed one of the most recognisable editing techniques in film history: the montage. Key filmmakers: Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov
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