Battleship Potemkin Centenary Celebrated

To mark the centenary of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary silent Battleship Potemkin, a special edition of the film – in a restored version made by Deutsche Kinemathek, with the celebrated score by Tennant and Lowe of Pet Shop Boys – will be released for the first time in cinemas and in a two-disc Blu-ray and CD package by the BFI. The new trailer, poster and packshot are revealed today.

On 22 August 2025, Battleship Potemkin. Music by Pet Shop Boys will open in selected cinemas in the UK and Ireland. Ahead of a week-long run, a special double screening event, at BFI Southbank on Friday 5 September 2025 at 6.30pm, will begin with Pet Shop Boys’ feature film It Couldn’t Happen Here (1988), in memory of its late director, Jack Bond, followed by a Q&A with Neil Tennant, hosted by Paul Tickell, and then a screening of Battleship Potemkin…