ABSTRACT
The advertisements filling our newspapers proclaim The Battleship Potemkin as the 'pride of Soviet cinema'. On this occasion the newspaper advertisements and the film critics are unanimous in their judgement of the new film. In fact, Eisenstein can and should be proud of Potemkin because even the Western and American cinemas have not produced a film that is so captivating in its execution and at the same time so significant in its content. Potemkin is an event of enormous public significance because in it form and content have been fused into a powerful unity and a film with a revolutionary theme has found its proper revolutionary artistic form.
