Rated 7/10One of those: "You must see this before you die, explode, or otherwise spontaneously humanly combust" movies...
...Often listed among the greatest ever made etc. blah blah, and so on and so forth.
Having finally gotten around to seeing it, I can see it was good, dare I say, even revolutionary for it's time - a silent movie which is more an historical dramatic diagram of particular events than a a movie proper, or drama in the modern sense, but it was just more interesting than engaging for me.
Difficult to imagine now, a story about a Russian battleship crew, who, neglected and oppressed by their superiors are pushed into mutiny, and turning against their military overlords, and who's tale inspires the local population of Odessa to rise in support of them, in a Dunkirk style , small boats salvation...
...Before the hierarchy turn on the lot of them, in order to put down the uprising, in a Peterloo style historical civil / war crime.
I read somewhere once, that Russians used to be like this... not putting up with this kind of oppressive nonsense from their betters...