Marking the film’s 100th anniversary, Eisenstein’s legendary drama of rebellion and revolution returns to the big screen with a celebrated score from the Pet Shop Boys. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin leads a mutiny against their tyrannical officers. Eisenstein’s landmark fusion of art and politics – a regular on Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time poll – is brimming with technical brilliance, and a pioneering approach to editing and montage that had an indelible impact on the future of cinema. It is always a gift to witness one of the greatest silent epics on the big screen, but Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s music enhances the experience. Performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker and orchestrated by Torsten Rasch, the soundtrack blends electronic beats with orchestral grandeur, offering a stirring contemporary twist on the classic masterpiece.
