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Potemkin  TCM is pleased to present the U.S. broadcast premiere
of the 2005 restoration of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship
Potemkin (1925), accompanied by a new arrangement of Edmund
Meisel's orchestral score, which Eisenstein himself authorized
for the film's Berlin premiere in 1926. This same version will
be released on DVD by Kino in a 2-disc special edition.  The
Battleship Potemkin was recognized from the start as a landmark
work both for its innovative use of montage and for its sheer
power as propaganda. In particular, the "Odessa steps" sequence
is arguably the single most famous and widely quoted passage in
the history of film. But in a sense The Battleship Potemkin has
been the victim of its own effectiveness. Reissued over the
years in various censored and reedited versions, Eisenstein's
great vision has not been seen for several decades in anything
like what the director likely