Q 01/05

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

A) Moscow

B) Riga

C) Saint Petersburg

D) Kyiv

Answer · why

B) Riga

His father was an architect; the family later moved to Saint Petersburg in the year of the 1905 Revolution.

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

He believed the 'collision' of two independent shots could create meaning and manipulate the audience's emotions.

Q 03/05

The mutiny dramatised in Battleship Potemkin took place in which year?

A) 1898

B) 1917

C) 1905

D) 1921

Answer · why

C) 1905

The film was commissioned for the 20th anniversary of that first Russian revolution and premiered at the Bolshoi in December 1925.

Q 04/05

What sets off the mutiny aboard the Potemkin in the film?

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

The ship's doctor insists the maggots are merely insects that can be washed off, and the crew refuse the borscht.

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

Cossacks march down the steps firing into the crowd; the real staircase in Odesa now bears the film's name.