Battleship Potemkin and Beyond.

REVOLUTIONS in motion pictures; BATTLESHIP Potemkin (Film); LA Guerre est Finie (Film); BATTLE of Algiers, The (Film); EISENSTEIN, Sergei, 1898-1948; PONTECORVO, Gillo

The article discusses the portrayal of revolutionary politics in film. Director Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkim," the author notes, was meant to expose the oppressive nature of a czarist regime in Russia. "The Battle of Algiers," directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, showed how the French used brutal tactics against an insurgency in Algiers, an approach that ultimately turned French public opinion against continued military involvement there. Director Alain Resnais' "La Guerre est Finie," the author says, provides a portrait of a professional revolutionary.