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The Odyssey of the Battleship: On the Reconstruction of Potemkin at the Filmmuseum Berlin
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The faithful reconstruction of Battleship Potemkin, its restoration to Eisenstein's original 1926 version and preservation in that form - wasn't that done long ago? And Edmund Meisel's score, written in 1926 for the German version of the film and approved by Eisenstein: hasn't that already been adapted to the original, performed in cinemas, recorded, and broadcast?
Battleship Potemkin, of course,was never a lost or forgotten film. The fact that, in response to Jacques Ledoux's survey o...
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