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As you may be able to tell, our class has now reached the era of the

So, continuing our exploration of student (as always: descriptive, not prescriptive!):

1) As I expected, "Battleship Potemkin" was something completely new to them. They were suitably moved by the famous scene on the Odessa steps

archive.org/details/Battleship

(but why I did I first have to admonish a couple of them focused on their laptops or phones to turn toward the screen? WTF)

1/n

If "Battleship Potemkin" meant nothing to our students, then they were certainly not aware of Eisenstein's great "October," either.

youtube.com/watch?v=k62eaN9-TL

I hinted that, when their cultural tastes had further matured, I might at last introduce them to

"Aelita Queen of Mars" (1924) 🙃

imdb.com/title/tt0014646/plots

youtu.be/yoROo4Ur49c

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@CitizenWald There's also Alexander Nevsky, which I saw in my college Russian history class. The Teutonic Knights attack Novgorod just like the Germans are about to attack Russia.

Jim Wald

@historian1661

Yes, another of my favorites! (Not least because of the great Prokofiev score).

And, after the August 1939 German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, the latter pulled the film from cinemas