Jornal da Mostra
Battleship Potemkin
Nº 375 > 29ª Mostra > 25/10/2005
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One kilo of cereals in exchange for a ticket for the closing session of the Film Festival
The tickets to see the restored version of The Battleship Potemkin on November 3rd, at 9:00 pm, in the Memorial da América Latina, can be exchanged for on kilo of cereals at the Film Festival Center, located at Conjunto Nacional. 2073, Paulista Avenue.The Jazz Sinfônica orchestra is providing the accompaniment to the restored version of The Battleship Potemkin - a classic from 1925, directed by Sergei Eisenstein - on invitation of the 29th Mostra, with a live performance of the music by Edmund Meisel, especially composed in 1926, when the film was released in Germany. The adaptation and orchestration of the music when the film was re-launched at the Berlin Festival in 2005, on the 80th anniversary of the masterpiece by Eisenstein, are by Helmut Imig. All the restoration project of The Battleship Potemkin, was supported by Goethe Institute.
The Russian classic The Battleship Potemkin (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein, has been restored and, for the first time includes scenes that were censored and Leon Trotski's opening address, suppressed under the Josef Stalin government. The task of restoring the film took two years and was completed at the British Cinema Institute and by Russian and German entities. Corrections were also made to the famous sequence of the great stairway at the port of Odessa where the slaughter of the mutineers took place, also targeted by Russian censorship at the time the film was released. In Brazil, during the military dictatorship, the film was forbidden in the whole country.
