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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Battleship Potemkin: The Sounds of Silents\nEvent U
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 he_Sounds_of_Silents\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-12-19\nEvent Date End: 2011-1
 2-19\n\nSergei Eisenstein\, having already made a splash in the Soviet Uni
 on for his first film\, Strike\, was quickly requisitioned by the Russian 
 revolutionary leadership to make a new film that was to celebrate the 20th
  anniversary of the famous Potemkin uprising. V.I. Lenin had hailed this r
 evolt as the first proof that Russian troops could be counted on to join t
 he proletariat in overthrowing the old czarist regime - and thus a high wa
 ter mark in the October Revolution.\n\nThe crew Potemkin\, coming home fro
 m a war with Japan\, become mutinous due to the poor quality of rations. T
 he ship's officers - hoping to avoid a full mutiny - order the rebellious 
 crew shot. One crew\, Vakulinchuk\, cries out\, 'Brothers! Who are you sho
 oting at?'' The firing squad lowers its guns\, but when an officer unwisel
 y tries to enforce his command\, a full-blown mutiny explodes.\n\nOnshore\
 , news of the uprising reaches citizens who have long suffered under czari
 st repression. They send food and water out to the battleship in a flotill
 a of skiffs. The ruling regime catches wind of this and orders its army to
  suppress the citizens. In one of the most famous sequences ever put on fi
 lm\, czarist troops march down a long flight of steps\, firing on the citi
 zens who flee before them in a terrified - and terrifying - tide. Countles
 s innocents are killed. The massacre is ultimately encapsulated in the ima
 ge of a woman shot dead trying to protect her baby in a carriage - which t
 hen bounces down the steps\, out of control. News of the uprising reaches 
 the Potemkin\, which speeds toward Odessa to put an end to the massacre.\n
 \nBattleship Potemkin has become one of the touchstones in film history an
 d one of the landmarks of silent cinema. The Coolidge has once again joine
 d forces with the composers and musicians of the Berklee College of Music'
 s Department of Film Scoring to present an original score for the fully re
 stored version of Eienstein's most famous film.\n\nStart time: 7:00pm
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SUMMARY:Battleship Potemkin: The Sounds of Silents
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