11.12.2025 – 05.01.2026
Sergei Eisenstein’s most famous, groundbreaking work, Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin), premiered on 21 December 1925 as the official anniversary film celebrating the Russian Revolution of 1905. The famous scene on the Odessa harbour steps in particular became an emblematic and much-quoted image. It is also considered representative of Eisenstein’s cinematic ideas, but it is only the tip of the iceberg in the work of a polymath who sought to combine influences from all other arts as well as religion, anthropology and psychology in cinema, thus creating a decisive foundation for the further development of the medium. Eisenstein has also remained a central figure for the Film Museum. His work has been collected almost in its entirety by the Film Museum. The holdings are being exhibited again to mark the 100th anniversary of Battleship Potemkin: all of Eisenstein’s feature films are on display, as well as rare short films, unfinished works and other rarities.
SERGEI EISENSTEIN – 100 Years of ‘Potemkin’
11.12.2025 – 05.01.2026
Österreichisches Filmmuseum
Augustinerstraße 1
1010 Vienna
https://www.filmmuseum.at
