Revolution is the only lawful, equal, effectual war. It was in Russia that this war was declared and begun.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin revolt against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Cast & crew

Sergei Eisenstein

Director

Aleksandr Antonov

Grigory Vakulinchuk

Vladimir Barsky

Commander Golikov

Grigori Aleksandrov

Chief Officer Giliarovsky

Ivan Bobrov

Young Sailor Flogged While Sleeping

Mikhail Gomorov

Militant Sailor

A

Aleksandr Levshin

Petty Officer

N

Nina Poltavtseva

Woman with Pince-nez

K

Konstantin Feldman

Student Agitator

P

Prokhorenko

Mother Carrying Wounded Boy

A

A. Glauberman

Wounded Boy

B

Beatrice Vitoldi

Woman with Baby Carriage

Danylo Antonovych

Sailor

Iona Biy-Brodskiy

Student

J

Julia Eisenstein

Woman with Food for Sailors

Sergei Eisenstein

Odessa Citizen

Andrey Fayt

Recruit

Y

Yuriy Korobeynikov

Legless Veteran

M

Marusov

Officer

P

Protopopov

Old Man

R

Repnikova

Woman on the Steps