Q 01/05

In which city, then part of the Russian Empire, was Sergei Eisenstein born in 1898?

A) Moscow

B) Riga

C) Tallinn

D) Kyiv

Answer · why

B) Riga

Riga still shows off the family name: Eisenstein's father Mikhail designed many of the Art Nouveau apartment houses that tourists now come to the city...

Q 02/05

Eisenstein is considered a pioneer of which theory and practice of film editing?

A) The long take

B) Cinéma vérité

C) Deep focus

D) Montage

Answer · why

D) Montage

Montage, as Eisenstein saw it, works by collision: he compared the clash of one shot against the next to the explosions inside an engine, each one dri...

Q 03/05

Battleship Potemkin marked which uprising's twentieth anniversary?

A) The Paris Commune

B) The 1905 Revolution

C) The Decembrist revolt

D) The October Revolution

Answer · why

B) The 1905 Revolution

The 1905 Revolution failed, and the real mutineers ended up handing over their ship in a Romanian port. Eisenstein stops the film earlier, as the flee...

Q 04/05

What sets off the mutiny aboard the ship in Battleship Potemkin?

A) A flogging on the foredeck

B) Maggoty meat rations

C) An order to fire on strikers

D) Months of unpaid wages

Answer · why

B) Maggoty meat rations

Maggoty meat rations. The ship's doctor inspects the crawling carcass and pronounces it perfectly fit to eat, and when the mutiny comes he is thrown o...

Q 05/05

Battleship Potemkin's most famous sequence, endlessly imitated, shows Cossacks firing on a crowd where?

A) On a giant staircase in Odessa

B) On the deck of the battleship

C) In Moscow's Red Square

D) On the docks at Kronstadt

Answer · why

A) On a giant staircase in Odessa

On a giant staircase in Odessa, although no such massacre ever took place there. Troops did fire on crowds elsewhere in the city, and Eisenstein moved...