The Centre des Arts Pluriels Ettelbruck (CAPE) has organised a screening of Sergueï Eisenstein’s silent movie masterpiece ‘Battleship Potemkin’, with an added live orchestra, for Wednesday 30 November 2016 at 20:00.
CAPE will hold a screening of this silent movie classic from 1925, which features a live orchestra with new music from contemporary film, as produced by Luxembourgish composer and musician Jeannot Sanavia and performed by the KammerMusekVeräinLëtzebuerg. This version was first shown in Esch-sur-Sûr in Summer 2015 and will now be screened in CAPE Ettelbruck with an introduction by Christian Mosar.
The silent movie deals with Russia in 1905 when it is at war with Japan and suffers a heavy defeat and capture at Arthur Port. The event provoked strikes and revolutionary movement during what became the Russian Revolution. In June, the Tsar’s famous Potemkin battleship, along with other buildings and property, was mutinied at the Odessa port. It is from this event that the film gets its name.
Battleship Potemkin has been a monument in cinema since 1925. Through his film, Sergueï Eisenstein, a visionary in the history of cinema and the most influential director coming from the former Soviet Union, presents the history of the mutiny on the famous Russian battleship during the 1905 revolution. The Soviet authorities asked Eisenstein to create the film for the 20th anniversary of the revolution against the Tsar.
Despite becoming one of Eisenstein’s most famous works, the film was censured almost everywhere when it first came out due to it being considered too powerful with its subject of a people’s revolt. However, after having been edited by the authorities, the film received great success in the USSR and was used under Stalin as a propaganda film.
The film lasts 70 minutes and is suitable for ages 12 and up.
Tickets cost €21 or €20.50 for young people.
Reservations should be made via telephone on (+350) 2681 2681 or at www.cape.lu.
