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Robert Sklar
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Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University. Author of Film: An International History of the Medium and others.
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Battleship Potemkin, Soviet silent film, released in 1925, that was director Sergey M. Eisenstein’s tribute to the early Russian revolutionaries and is widely regarded as a masterpiece of international cinema. The film is based on the mutiny of Russian sailors against their tyrannical superiors…
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