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The first pass Battleship Potemkin was in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, December 21, 1925. The director came to the room where they spent the last images, and was greeted with an impressive standing ovation. "The next day he wrote Sklovski-famous Eisenstein woke up." The fact is really surprising, given that the movie was (is it still?) A difficult film, or at least austere, with no immediate seduction: There are no heroes or famous actors (the protagonist is the mass). There is an almost total absence of history, intrigue tacked to the traditional way. It is a pioneering work whose daring disconcerted assembly the public. However, trumped Russian film like no other had done before.

The film circulated in the Soviet Union from January 19, 1926. In Moscow, opened in twelve rooms, on January 22 was projected at twenty-four. Anissimov critic said: "The film is an event. As The Birth of a Nation (1915), Griffith, opened the great American film, the second work of Eisenstein inaugurates the great Soviet film. " Alexeyev declared "brilliant in its simplicity script, staging brilliant in its complexity."

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come from the USSR, the film had limited distribution in most countries. Weimar Germany only welcomed it with enthusiasm, premiered in Berlin on April 29, 1926, was in theaters for over a year. But no other excused him a good reception. In England only authorized private screenings at film societies and non-commercial facilities. In the U.S., cut almost a third, was released on December 5, 1926 Broadway in a room and spent sixteen weeks on the bill. The public distribution of Battleship Potemkin not authorized in France until 1953, in Japan until 1959 and in Italy until 1960. In Spain, dictatorship General Primo de Rivera prevented their display. In 1931, the Government of the Republic authorized private screenings at film clubs (the first pass, the English Film Club of Madrid, May 1931), but prohibited its public. With the Franco film be banned again, until in 1952 he returned to the film clubs.