Symbolism in Soviet Revolutionary Cinema

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Originally Posted by dissention

How about the Odessa Steps sequence in The Battleship Potemkin ? There's a reason they wouldn't show it in England until the mid-fifties, you know.

If you have seen more of the movie then the odessa steps I'll eat my hat. That movie is impossible to sit out. Maybe that was the reason in England. But why play it after the mid-fifties? As a punishment for criminals?