This performance will feature a live score performed by Hugo Max.

"My viola soundtrack for Battleship Potemkin unfolds with a similar propulsive dread as captured by Francis Bacon in his paintings of the screaming nurse from the infamous Odessa steps sequence. This is Eisenstein's masterwork with a visceral intensity, the daring set-pieces accompanied by angular, percussive melodies." - Hugo Max

Please view this YouTube video for a sample of Hugo's work.


Photo Credit - Richard Ecclestone

When they are fed rancid meat, the sailors on the Potemkin revolt against their harsh conditions. Led by Vakulinchuk (Aleksandr Antonov), the sailors kill the officers of the ship to gain their freedom. Vakulinchuk is also killed, and the people of Odessa honor him as a symbol of revolution. Tsarist soldiers arrive and massacre the civilians to quell the uprising. A squadron of ships is sent to overthrow the Potemkin, but the ships side with the revolt and refuse to attack.