The MIll Valley Film Festival and the MarIn Symphony Present
Battleship Potemkin

Sunday, October 7, 7:30 pm
Tuesday, October 9, 7:30 pm
Pre-Concert Conversation 6:30 pm
Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium
Marin Civic Center, San Rafael
Alasdair Neale, conductor

Please call 415.499.6800 or go to www.marinsymphony.org for additional information.
<buy tickets>

In partnership with the Marin Symphony, the Mill Valley Film Festival presents Sergei M. Eisenstein’s 1925 black-and-white silent film classic, with a live orchestral score by legendary composer Dmitri Shostakovich from the 1976 restoration of the film. Conducted by Alasdair Neale, the concert is preceded by a half-hour conversation with the audience, during which Maestro Neale will also discuss the musicological and historical significance of the Shostakovich score, and the unique challenges of conducting live music for film. This event is a rare opportunity you won’t want to miss!

---

Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin)
USSR 1925 | 66 MINS

Director/Editor Sergei M. Eisenstein Producer Jacob Bliokh Screenwriters Nina Agadzhanova, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Cinematographer Edward Tisse Cast Aleksander Antonov, Vladiir Barsky, Grigori Alekandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, A. Levshin
Print Source Sheldon M. Rich & Associates Inc.

With English intertitles • All the power and glory of this 1925 silent film classic comes alive accompanied by the Marin Symphony in live performance of legendary composer Dimitri Shostakovich’s triumphant, alternative musical score. It’s 1905, and the sailors aboard the battleship Potemkin are in the midst of a fiery uprising against their senior officers in a collective, courageous act of resistance to inhumane conditions aboard ship. Tragedy strikes one of the sailors, and, as the ship docks in the Odessa harbor, a revolution soon spreads among the passionate citizenry, sparking a bloody confrontation (the inimitable Odessa Steps sequence) that results in triumph over social injustice. Long hailed by critics and cinemagoers as one of the most innovative, landmark films of all time (even Charlie Chaplin admitted it was his favorite), director Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin remains a testament to the mightiness of the moving image