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The Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatised version of the Battleship Potemkin uprising that occurred in 1905 when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive officers of the Tsarist regime. Potemkin has been called one of the most influential films of all time, and was named the greatest film of all time at the World's Fair at Brussels, Belgium, in 1958. The film is composed of five episodes: Men and Maggots, in which the sailors protest at having to eat rotten meat; Drama at the Harbour, in which the sailors mutiny and their leader, Vakulynchuk, is killed; A Dead Man Calls for Justice in which Vakulynchuk's corpse is mourned over by the people of Odessa; The Odessa Staircase, in which Tsarist soldiers massacre the Odessans; and The Rendez-Vous with a Squadron, in which the squadron ends up