Battleship Potempkin - Odessa Steps scene (Einsenstein 1925)

[ApostolosFilms]

sorry bt i didnt understand what happened in the story. can someone explain this to me please :)

[Paperbagman555]

This is fucking intense for 1925! :O

[TJPinoy]

*No babies, children or elderly womens's eyes were harmed during the production of this film*

[shpresa0721]

at 2:40 get ure son! stop standing there

[thatoneguy855]

My boy is very ill.

BITCH, HE'S DEAD

[SkibopDaSequel]

the part with the baby, so fake lol if it was real the carriage would have tipped over and the baby would have fell out. not gonna lie i laughed at that part because it wasn't done realistically. but the rest of this was intense

[Stbernardhollister]

@SkibopDaSequel lol dude this was 1925,they didnt have bollistics gel to make a fake baby, they didnt have much other than a camera.

[Crocodokii]

that was intense.

[EuroPropaganda]

a bit binary , but nice movie

[Frosenlava]

Eisensteinis the godfather of Montage. 

[Broommaster2000]

This is indeed a striking scene!

[AWonderingWarrior]

This film is spectacular to watch. No wonder it ranks high on several movie lists.

[navneet349]

Must have been a shocker when it came out. You can't judge an old film without placing it in context and thinking about the audiences back then. Considering what limited resources Russian film makers had in this period, fantastic piece of work.

[maxjordan90]

This is eerily relevant with what's been happening in Oakland.

[dogtoothable]

0:52 Godfather of parkour

[thekaneyboi]

aww the poor man with no legs

[ShereBlogs]

en mi clase de historia me pusieron a ver este video,, vienen imagenes en el libro :O

[colinmcom14]

The version I saw had gunshot noises in it, worked for the atmosphere alot.

[thexaw]

It's amazing that this scene is still so intense and heartbreaking after 86 years.

[wiko4ever]

pinche video aburiddooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooo

[tatusnosuke28]

porra q foda

[mickigoe]

Overrated ! Too much ham acting and flagrant melodrama for this kid. The kind of scene that everybody must like because its "essential cinema " - whatever the fk that means.And why on earth would a mother choose the steepest longest steps in the world to perambulate her baby ? This scene is bad bordering on idiotic.

[rhysh29]

@mickigoe none of those people were actual actors the scene is so well known for its used of camera angles and use of lighting for example on the soldiers the shadow hides their face so we can not see their emotion and feel no sympathy for them

[mickigoe]

@rhysh29 Your points are very good and , of course contextually , it must have looked brilliant in 1925. The director seems to me to have a photographer's eye rather than a movie-maker's one - powerful individual images but poor narrative cohesion. But I see your argument.

[rhysh29]

@mickigoe fair enough i see you have your views and i have mine so i will accept what you have to say

[mickigoe]

@rhysh29 Agreed , rhysh. Good health and long life.

[sintofg]

@mickigoe Well using a camera view as one of the people running away or after a person was a new thing back at that time.

[sintofg]

@mickigoe There is also it is about an event that unless a person reads up on prior to watching might say that.

[mickigoe]

@sintofg I taught European History for 30 years - which is partly why I'm so able to recognize propaganda as distinct from primary-source historical research - but I was commenting on cinematic technique - why don't you read posts before dissing them ?

[mravantgarde123]

7:23- terrifying

[mravantgarde123]

one of the most remembered moments in film history...

[Erics0n2000]

no babies were harmed while making this



[Sabbsche]

What are they doing with the baby? :O

[blablaman233]

a lot of extras died filming this sequence

[bluehoopz44]

i cant help but compare the end of this to the the baby stroller scene in the untouchables.. somethin about babys rolling down stairs creates the most SUSPENSE lol

[narendraswapnil]

@bluehoopz44 that scene in the untouchables was a homage to this sequence buddy :)

[NymphQueen]

@bluehoopz44 the baby stroller scene in 'The Untouchables' is a tribute to this 'Odessa steps sequence. Brian De Palma looks up to Eisenstein.

[AGuyInAHat]

While nothing like this happened in real life or anything similar, it's still a heart stopping and suspenseful scene. Probably one of the most terrifying montages in the history of film.

[communistapprentice]

Wonderful movie ! It tells a story that happened in 1905, during the first Revolution that failed.This scene especially is a phenomenon. Really powerful, always manages to terrify me. So tragic not only because of the events that happened 106 years ago but because just the same is happening righ tnow in Syria, Yemen, Jordan and etc.

[barongruner]

The most important six minutes in world film history...

[KrikenKing]

...how long are those stairs? Great scene. I've watched this to supplement my knowledge of 'montage' theory for my Media Studies course.

[SONBoomer]

....Sweet Mother of All God!

[JamieHalus]

I love movies and cinema and all the rest but I'm sorry, that was fucking shite.

[cleary1492]

i just wanna know... WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE BABY!!!

[Svarog1969]

Why so many jewish faces? They were less than 2% of the population in the empire.

[JAMMAICACCOLA]

I think that the woman at 0:44 is a little bit disturbing

[bukovinian]

sad thing its communist propaganda... Film work is indeed great.

[JLDoggard]

I always think it's funny how people go on about film violence in modern films when just about the most famous and revered scene in film history, meant to be condemning violence, is wildly exhilerating.

[MarcoEsquand0las]

black and yellow black and yellow 1:02

[NUTTA1997]

what I don't get is that they all run DOWN the steps. not to the side.... Poor kid though.

[pkaffe]

Because you can't run to the sides...

It's just rough cliffs on the right side (top view) all the way down from the top and actually today you can take the cable car that runs next side to it (on the right side of the stairs if you are on the top of them) and on the left side (top view) there is quite a bit high drop straight down...

That is also why the stairs are so long (205 steps)...

[okifonokie]

The CBS daytime drama, The Young And The Restless just paid tribute to this clip when one of it's main characters was murdered by an assailent who intended to shoot the baby in the stroller. It was so laughable.

[TheSlammys]

@okifonokie Can you recommend wehere we can find this?

[bjgreek1]

@TheSlammys if you're in England cureently been restored an is on at the BFI Southbank cinema.

[mwizard216]

jewish propaganda. enter- tain - ment. bring you in. consume you with fairy tales. control and make gentiles be at odds with one another. read protocals of zion

[thegreatmathsdebate]

I'm going to rape your historic piece of film history

[suzon2011]

splendide

[gazolinero]

masterpiece

[89700omar]

l'enfant quand il meurt on dirai kil le fai exprès

[TheThinkingAnimal]

That baby grew up to drive Grave Digger.

[MickaScript]

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[Noximilian]

@MickaScript Tiens, je te donnes la corde pour que t'ailles te pendre. Ne te retiens pas.

Un peu de respect pour les films de l'époque ! On est en 1925 quand ce film sort...

[BjornSvenson]

Anyone know if this is the original soundtrack?

[musicfan826]

Yes. By Dimitri Shostakovich

[Huddiethegreat]

@BjornSvenson Its not.

[erinpilla]

I love the cinematography and the emotion.

[FrederikMeyer]

touching.

[higuti0011]

赤軍は残虐だな

[maxlharris]

Dialectic film montage in it's infancy and rarely done better than here. Yes, this is Bolshevik propaganda of the highest order. So what. Consider this. Eisenstein, if he had been a German or an Italian, would have made commercial cinema in the west, probably relocating to the US at some point. Through accident of birth, he's born in Russia Develops quite a bit of film theory from scratch (there is no good way to do montage, much less dialectic montage on stage or radio or in a book). Quite a

[goback3spaces]

@maxlharris He did relocate to the U.S. briefly, then went back.

[MrViTopol]

i walked those steps.

[NoirFan01]

The baby carriage on the steps has been recreated in a few movies as a tribute to Eisenstein. Terry Gilliam used it in "Brazil" and DePalma used it in "The Untouchables." Eisenstein was an impressive director in the silent film era but his sound films such as "Alexander Nevsky" are dreadful in their overkill.

[MrMoto]

Einsenstein, eh?

[14loughlin]

wat a piece of amazing footage for its age x

[bud1877]

Fucking awesome bit of cinema.. to this day people think this was real

[spirmessi]

if you like to see the movies history watch *BIRTH OF CINEMA* in youtube and enjoy.

[Spoocecow]

The panning shots following the rush of the crowd down the stairs are still breathtaking. To say nothing of the rest of the content. Audiences 80 years ago must have been apoplectic seeing this.

[chewey91]

we saw this movie in my Art of the Cinema class in school, and even my teacher said that this scene drives him crazy because we never truly know if that guy @ the end hit the woman in the eye or killed the baby. :'(

[lvngdead]

lmfao @ the cat with no legs.

[delMirjarz]

The best propaganda scene ever.

[MusicBySav]

cinema's power illustrated in an infamous scene

[GreasyRockabilly]

r those guys shooting at the crowd the mutiners who were on board the potempkin or just a bunch of tsarist soldiers?

[Abridgedfan134]

Such a tearjerker, the baby rolling down the stairs is so horrifyingly intense tht you can barely breathe watching it

[CampEpsilon]

Ha, I just found a reference to it in Terry Gilliam's _Brazil_ at 2:10:50.

[scenester64]

The music is fucking amazing! Goes so well with the images it's unbelievable! I'm surprised the score isn't talked about as much as the editing.

[vivalapiggy]

@scenester64 thats because the Germans put it in. not Eisenstein.

[URIAH65]

The name is Eisenstein.

[joedisalem]

la corrazzatta Potionkin e' una cagata pazzesca!!!

[SPeacock]

@joedisalem Son d'accordo :) 92 minuti di applausi!

[yaroon5]

this would go nice with benny hill.

[Divolicious1]

Quite possibly the single greatest and most influential sequence in the history of the cinema; a highly essential film for anyone interested in cinema. Eisenstein's masterful use of thematic montage remains unparalleled to this day.

[AprilShowerful]

This is revolting.. I am sorry but.. it's just in really bad taste. I don't care what it's supposed to represent.

[AndrewMann552]

@AprilShowerful Bad taste? WTF?

[EllenPDawkes]

Oh, my favorite film ever! I just never could figure out why her glasses broke :(

[lemontarsier]

@EllenPDawkes

I'd always assumed her glasses were broken and her face bloody because she had been shot in the eye, but maybe it's just supposed to symbolize that she has seen things too horrible to endure.

[ernhrdthero]

Hmmm the Bigger the lie the more will believe it. For anyone who cares this is Soviet Era Propaganda at it's finest.

[AndrewMann552]

@ernhrdthero Like American war movies correct? And so...I guess the Czar was a good guy or something? Is that why his own people kicked his ass out?

[ernhrdthero]

@AndrewMann552 oh no the czar wasn't a good leader and neither was the following leaders of the soviet union, what I'm saying is the whole step scene that the soviet government at the time deemed to be truth was latter proven to be false and the massacre never happened, but what else would expect from the soviets just look at Katyrn.

[revaluator]

Just saw this on TCM with a different score. This one is far better.

[GrandeFratello0rwell]

il montaggio analoggico mi ha sbalordito!

[MartyJ0]

This didn't happen in reality, but it's a very powerful symbol. 

[goback3spaces]

truth

[melaniasirotich]

this movie influenced on the mayority of XX century 's movies

[BrotherBones1111]

Where's Kevin Costner when you need him!?!

[morryll]

I've rewound the last few seconds several times, and I'm still not quite sure what happens to the damn baby. There is a very brief shot of him coming to an astop near some soldiers-- but you never see the impact, and the kid seemed OK bouncing down 200 steps, so who knows? And who is that guy about to hit with his rifle-- is it the baby? Is it the lady with the glasses? If it's not the lady with the glasses, then who broke her glasses? Who wears glasses like that anyway? I need a drink.

[sarchinius]

Very interesting music by Shostakovich, part of them was used later in his symphonies

[sarpedon3]

Even today, this is pretty shocking, particular the kid being trampled and the baby in the pram. How people back then truly reacted I don't know but this is a fantastic scene.

[floppykid]

An excelent piece of propaganda.

[junkers1337]

I feel sorry for the Russians, they've had a brutal history. The Mongols taking them over, Tsarist Rule, WW2, and Stalins purges, but they survived.

[jianghaolie]

woah...really, really good! i am simply impressed and blown back by the power of the film

[samdaisi]

great piece of movie history

[Svaple]

los movimientos de cámara son la mamada.

[cassiewarlock]

shit

[fantozzi80]

А через 13 лет народ отомстил, расстреляв Николашку Кровавого с семьёй. Око за око.

[EcilopRus]

@fantozzi80 угу и за одно Николашей Кровавым этот народ расстрелял еще несколько миллионов человек которые были против

[GreenBaldrick]

@fantozzi80 Ага,а заодно пару-тройку десятков миллионов невинных людей.

[fantozzi80]

@GreenBaldrick Точно! Ленин ЛИЧНО сожрал 200 миллинов русских! Дзержинский и Фрунзе 20-30 миллионами закусили. А паиньки Николашка Кровавый, Колчак, Деникин, Врангель, Краснов, Юденич кормили народ, обласкивали и на волю отпускали!

[GreenBaldrick]

@fantozzi80 Если ты ТАК оцениваешь историю,то ты ее просто не знаешь.Это страшно,когда люди,спустя десятилетия,пытаются оправдать преступления против человечества,искажают историю в соответствии со своей идеалогией и не признают полутона.Николай II - это просто слабый,трусливый и недалекий правитель.А "белые" командиры всего навсего боролись за Страну,в которой они родились,в которой жили их отцы и деды.Не вижу никаких причин их демонизировать.Они не были ни на грамм более жестоки,чем "красные".

[fantozzi80]

@GreenBaldrick Я прекрасно знаю историю! Я знаю, что 17 из 20(!) командующих штабами фронтов (белая кость и голубая кровь, закончившая Академию Генштаба) ПМВ - генералов царской армии стали военспецами Красной Армии. Я против возвеличивания одних и принижения других, которые объявляются теперь "преступниками против человечества".

[ifightbecauseilikeit]

I've never seen this movie. Could someone please tell me who the guy with no legs is/somehow explain him to me?

[vipertga]

He is a guy with no legs. He has nothing to do with any plot points.

[cm2dude]

He is one of the many Russians who were affected by the Tsarist regime. Note that the young, and the old, men, women, and children. Mothers and Fathers all died in this scene.

[70type3]

symbolic of the country being split in half maybe

[lalalaurie515]

@ifightbecauseilikeit it's symbolic to the scene. Eisenstein has introduced all of the worst possible scenarios: women in heels, man without legs, small children, older adults and now they all have to run down these stairs. it adds to the suspense.

[gbadamo65]

Amazing.

[alexnote76]

спасибо, я теперь понимаю каким гением обладали режиссер и оператор, при том что не было тогда ни учебников ни шаблонов...

[littlerainworm550]

I looked at this with my mouth opened!and this is from 1925!!!

[samsamiisamiiii]

I think this movie is the ultimate cinema,

i dont think there is a better scene than this one in all of the cinema history, beside this is the best film ever ,

[NickRiviera10]

months before I entered the film school I saw this film was superb!

[fgldnglbs]

In the summer of '95, I saw this film with a live performance of Shostakovich's soundtrack by the Philadelphia Orchestra. On the one hand, moving and infuriating, although you see when it's propaganda; on the other, let's do that again.

[Ultrabrut1]

Goddamn Cossacks!

[PhilipineMan]

2:14 was the most morally disturbing scene of the movie ROFL!

[Kindred1a1]

Fucking amazing wow

Stavy Watch!

[paleskinnylovers]

I think everyone has to study this scene at some point. I'm a university student and you even have to study the scene at this level. Pretty damn easy though. Am I right?

[bardcorebush]

Media Studies Homework arrghhh!

[Death2Fanboys]

Most disturbing scene in film ever. Sickening even to this day.

[librarianeric]

@Death2Fanboys Really? Have you seen "Salo"?

[PaulMikshenas]

watch the intro to naked gun 33 1/3

[pimplouis]

damn, trying to write about this scene on soviet montage for film studies...so much to say, but how to say it?

[ukv1290]

I had to do that last year for my summer exam! :D

[Malinar]

plus love the use of cripples to gain sympathy, my school did something similar during their ofsted inspection.

'Inclusion' Tick

[Malinar]

did men still have to play the parts of women in this time of theater or were they all just fuck ugly?

[ilovesofas247]

The man did play the major roles.

[berlinSS]

Eisenstein tries here to give them a proletarian look.

[RichardKleiner]

Great. Now I feel more intelligent because I finally got to see this sequence. Thanks. (No sarcasm intended)

[Zimdong108]

To fully appreciate the sequence I suggest to turn the sound off :)

[dignam419]

Depalma is a hack

[marty129]

wow, you do not get it

[HerliMenezes]

Uma aula de montagem cinematográfica. Todos os princípios enunciados por Eisenstein sobre a montagem estão aqui. Realmente como uma composição de ideogramas japoneses. A colisão entre as cenas da multidão desordenada, e os soldados marchando cadenciados, os close-ups contrapostos aos grandes planos...é cinema puro...na sua maior essência.

[xstation14]

We're watching this in my film class on Monday, but I can't go because it's a Jewish holiday. Thanks YouTube!

[kicker618]

do u go to FAU ? if so im in your class

[xstation14]

Nope

[wuggles451]

1:25

[Aswakhtor]

Benny Hill theme played over this makes this scene hilarious

[KaverenTheHunter08]

sorry, I accidentally pressed the one star while trying to press pause

[Galileus070]

Impressive. You don't forget this easily.

[melonacolypse]

I'm a modern film sort of person, but this just nearly made me cry. Very powerful, and tragic to the core.

[uberkogle]

@melonacolypse Damn straight! I was shocked at how moved I was. Holy shit, this was disturbing!

[Jijenji]

The sweeping wide shots are what make this scene.

[CountOrlokRocks]

i somehow like the german silentmovies much more than the russian ones, but the odeesssa steps scene is still great!

[Sandbag209]

You need to watch the movie again, idiot.

I first saw this when I was 11 years old and I had nightmares for months afterwards

I've just seen it again almost six years later and it still scares the shit outta me!

Very powerful movie. Think i need to watch something trashy in order to get some sleep