WITH PET SHOP BOYS SCORE
This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary ‘Battleship Potemkin’ featuring the celebrated score by the British dup Pet Shop Boys.
A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content. It is renowned for its dynamic compositional strength and editing of such frame-perfect precision that it’s hard not to be swept along. First revealed at a special outdoor screening in front of an estimated 25,000 in Trafalgar Square in 2004, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s score, performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker and orchestrated by Torsten Rasch, blends electronic beats with orchestral grandeur to create a contemporary cinematic experience.
USSR 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 73m
