SOVIET MONTAGE:

Sergei Eisenstein
1905 uprising

Battleship Potemkin (1925):

• Planned as part of a cycle of films about the Revolution (along with Strike and October)
• Tells about an episode of the 1905 revolt

Sergei Eisenstein:

• Didactic and always channel an ideological message
• No hero (well-rounded individual)
• Masses, classes, types
• Juxtaposition of unrelated expressive images in a rapid succession

Montage:

• Creates metaphors
• Innocence vs Violence
• Soldiers as depersonalized graphic lines moving forward, citizens of Odessa as individuals (close ups)

Difference in perspective:

• Soldiers are in control they move downwards
• Victims perspective is from below

EXPRESSIONISM:

Expressionism - The use of images to express psychological realities rather than material realities.

Metropolis:

• Religious symbols
• Class/Marxism
• New technologies - ahead of its time?
• Rotwang's invention - The Robot
• Love
• A vision of the future

• Silent science film directed by Fritz Lang
• Produced in Germany
• Released in 1927 during a stable period of Weimar Republic
• Most expensive film of its time, it cost approximately 7 million Marks to make