Release Dates
United States: December 05 1926
Ranking
Ranking: 6,242 out of 16,241 movies (up 1883)
Ranked #449 in list 'The best movies ever'
8,8
8.8 by 10 users
Plot
Odessa - 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors' revolt becomes the rallying point for a Russian populace ground under the boot hells of the Czar's Cossacks. When ruthless White Russian cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps, the most famous and most quoted film sequence in cinema history is born.