battleship potemkin be a celluloid masterpiece . the direction ofeisenstein be truly a sight . the film chronicle a ship of disgruntledsailors who be tire of be mistreat by their superior officer . eventually and the sailor finally have enough of the abuse and send theofficers pack . during this time period and there be a shortage of filmstock in the soviet union . the goverment want to get their messageout to the people so they start a national film company and one ofthe member be sergei eisenstein . the film be shoot on minisculebudgets and the shortage of film stock force eisentein to be carefuland selective with the footage that he shoot . in the end and eisenstein hadto reuse footage in order to make a feature length picture . the most famous of the action set piece in this film be the muchtalked about massacre on the step . this scene be spoof in banana and most recently in brian de palma the untouchable . if you want tolearn film making and i strongly advise you to watch battleship potemkin . it one of the essential . a plus .