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Soviet Influence, The; Volume 2: Battleship Potemkin (+ Drifters) Dual Format Edition RRP 19.99

certificate PG Certificate
1925 / 1929
Runtime: : 69 mins + 41 mins
B&W, with hand-coloured detail + tinting and toning
USSR / UK
Language(s): Silent with Russian & English intertitles
Subtitles: English
Published/distributed by BFI
ISBN/EAN: 5.03567E+12
Ratio 1.33:1
Region 2 / B
Price: £19.99
(Including VAT at 20%)
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Soviet Influence, The; Volume 2: Battleship Potemkin (+ Drifters) Dual Format Edition RRP 19.99 
Various; Release date: 5 Nov 2012
The second in the BFI's series exploring the influence of silent Soviet classics on British filmmakers of the 1930s. This edition presents one of the classics of world cinema, Sergei Eisentein's 1929 Battleship Potemkin, in High Definition for the first time in the UK, and accompanies it with the world premiere High Definition release of John Grierson's ground-breaking 1929 documentary Drifters.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Soviet propaganda films profoundly influenced the emerging luminaries of British documentary filmmaking. Sergei Eisenstein's groundbreaking Battleship Potemkin was not seen in the UK until the momentous London Film Society screening in 1929, where it was double-billed with John Griersons Drifters. This new restoration of Battleship Potemkin is presented with the 1926 Edmund Meisel score, while the digitally remastered transfer of Drifters employs the original tinting and toning and features a newly commissioned score by innovative British composer/performer Jason Singh.

Extras
* All films presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition
* Battleship Potemkin presented in a new restoration by Film Museum Berlin and partners, accompanied by the 1926 Edward Meisel score.
* Drifters presented in a new HD transfer, tinted and toned as originally intended, with a score by innovative composer/performer Jason Singh.
* Granton Trawler (John Grierson, 1934, 11 mins): Grierson's follow up to Drifters, one of the GPO Film Unit's first experiments with sound.
* Trade Tattoo (Len Lye, 1937, 6 mins): celebratory animation made from off-cuts of EMB and GPO films, including Drifters and Night Mail.
* North Sea (Harry Watt, 1938, 32 mins): dramatic reconstruction of sea farers' battle with the elements, produced by the GPO Film Unit.
* Fully illustrated booklet with credits and essays by Henry K Miller, Patrick Russell and Michael Brooke.
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