Jornal da Mostra
The Battleship Potemkin
Nº 388 > 29ª Mostra > 01/11/2005
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Extra session of The Battleship Potemkin on Saturday
Due to the public’s big demand for tickets to watch the restored version of the The Battleship Potemkin, which closes the 29th BR Film Festival – São Paulo International Film Festival, next Thursday (11/3), there will be an extra session, on Saturday (11/5), 9:00 pm, at Memorial da América Latina. The tickets can be exchanged for on kilo of cereals at Central da Mostra, Conjunto Nacional (2073, Paulista Avenue) until November 3rd, or at the ticket booth of the Simon Bolívar auditorium, Memorial da América Latina, until November 5th.The extra session will have the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra playing live the music of Edmund Meisel, specially composed in 1926, for the film’s release in Germany, conducted by the maestro João Maurício Galindo. The music’s adaptation and orchestration in the film’s release at the Berlin Film Festival 2005, which marked the 80th anniversary of Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece, has the authorship of Helmut Imig. All the restoration project of The Battleship Potemkin, was supported by Goethe Institute.
A Russian classic from 1925, The Battleship Potemkin, includes for the first time, in the restored version, censured scenes and the open speech of Leon Tróstki, suppressed by the government of Josef Stálin. The restoration work took two years and it was lead by the British Cinema Institute and Russian and German entities. It was also made some corrections in the famous sequence of the staircase at the Odessa Harbor, where the slaughtering of the rebellious took place, also target of the Russian censorship at the time. In Brazil, during the military dictatorship, the film had its exhibition prohibited in the whole country.
