Breve Storia del Cinema - L'ascesa della cinematografia francese:A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they reach land, a sailor who died during the mutiny is made a martyr, inspiring an uprising in the city. Then the authorities decide to repress the revolt with a brutal show of force.Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin 20 years before.