Opening gala: Film-concert Battleship Potemkin live soundtrack by Chris Jarrett

The opening gala tickets are already available: nothing less than Sergei Eisenstein’s restored classic film, Battleship Potemkin, with live accompaniment by the pianist and composer Chris Jarrett.
As every year, (S8) is opened looking backwards: that is, pointing to those film pioneers, those preceding sound cinema, whose work has helped build the language and the history of cinema. This year it is the turn of Eisenstein who, besides being one of the brightest Soviet directors, was one of the first to reflect and theorize about cinema. He is famous for his theory of film edition, one of the touchstones in building language and identity for the brand new art, which exploits the potential of the machine. Battleship Potemkin is his best-known work, a film that contains one of the most famous and powerful sequences in film history: the overwhelming one of Odessa steps. The film began as a commission to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, narrating one of the feats that led to the Bolshevik revolt. This is the uprising, in 1905, in which the crew of the battleship Potemkin rebelled against the tsarist army. A propaganda film that Eisenstein made a cinematic masterpiece, applying his innovative ideas in a laborious process.

It is also an event to see in La Coruna, in 35mm, the restored version of the film that replaces what was Eisenstein’s original vision.

Monday May 30th, 20.30h. Teatro Rosalía de Castro
You can purchase your tickets in advance at Teatro Rosalía de Castro: 902 044 226
Box office opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 12:00 h. to 14:00 h. and from 18:00 h. to 20:00 h. Payments in cash.
Central box office: Plaza de Orense. Monday to Sunday  (except holidays) fom 9.30h to 13h and from 16.30h to 19.30h. Payments in cash.
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