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In 1905, sailors aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin revolt after officers order them to eat maggot-infested meat and threaten execution. The mutiny reaches Odessa, where public support gathers on the steps before Tsarist troops intervene.

Eisenstein's collision of faces, boots, stone lions, crowds, and changing shot scales—most famously on the Odessa Steps—demonstrates how montage can create political meaning and visceral movement beyond any single image.