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Battleship Potemkin : Our Daily Bread

The crew has refused to eat the borscht and chooses to instead eat bread and water. A sailor smashes a plate with the inscription, "Give us this day our daily bread."

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close-up, eyeline match, fade-out, intertitles, low angle, medium close-up, montage, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, overlapping editing, prop, metaphorical

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"Our Daily Bread" in Battleship Potemkin. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, Gos, 1926, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1460

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Eduardo Mendoza

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