base on actual event of 1905 and silent film the battleship potemkin concern an imperial russian ship on which abominable condition lead to a mutiny . shock by condition on the ship and citizen of the port city odessa rally to the mutineer support and in consequence find themselves at the mercy of imperial force and who attack the civilian supporter with savage force . potemkin be a film in which individual character be much less important than the group and crowd of which they be member and and it achieve it incredible power by show the clash of the group and crowd in a series of extraordinarily visualize and edit sequence . amazingly and each of these sequence manage to top the previous one and and the film actually build in power a it move from the mutiny to the citizen rally to the massacre on the odessa step the latter of which be among the most famous sequence in all of film history . filming largely where the real event actually occur and director eisenstein vision be extraordinary a he build not only from sequence to sequence but from moment to moment within each sequence some of the most memorable image ever commit to film . to describe potemkin a a great film be something of an understatement . it be an absolute essential and an absolute necessity to any one seriously interested in cinema a an art form and purely visual cinema at it most brilliant and often imitated and seldom equal and never best . gary f. taylor and aka gft and amazon reviewer .