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As you may be able to tell, our class has now reached the era of the #RussianRevolution
So, continuing our exploration of student #cultural #literacy (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
https://archive.org/details/BattleshipPotemkin
(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)
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If "Battleship Potemkin" meant nothing to our students, then they were certainly not aware of Eisenstein's great "October," either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k62eaN9-TLY
I hinted that, when their cultural tastes had further matured, I might at last introduce them to
"Aelita Queen of Mars" (1924) 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014646/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl
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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.
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