Panzerkreuzer Potemkin [OmeU] live with Orchestra

Premiere of the original music by Edmund Meisel, newly reconstructed for the centenary, arranged in 2025 by George Morton and Hans Brandner.


The Babylon presents the uncut version with the original score by Berlin composer Edmund Meisel played live.

After a hundred years, Berlin and the Babylon are once again becoming the centre of cinematography. Because everything starts here and everything finds its way back here. See for yourself, experience the renaissance of the eternal, shattering truth! Here and now. Be part of it.


The new version is based on the recently rediscovered original voices and a score from 1926.

World premiere of the original music by Edmund Meisel, newly reconstructed for the centenary, arranged in 2025 by George Morton and Hans Brandner. The new version is based on the recently rediscovered original parts and a score from 1926.


RESTORED and now complete, with coloured title cards.

(English subtitles)


Battleship Potemkin [Bronenossez Potjomkin]
SU 1925, dir: Sergei Eisenstein with Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, 70 min, OmeU




100 years ago, Sergei Eisenstein struck lightning on the screen, followed by thunder from Edmund Meisel.

In doing so, they made the cinema the heart and brain of society.
Like Zeus, cinema entered virtual space, our central nervous system.
The enthusiasm of wage earners quickly mingled with the hysteria of the ruling class.
Struck to the core, the counterattacks began. Bans, censorship, remakes. One is called Metropolis.

Electricity and steel as synonyms for a dynamic that does not end in war and destruction, as is the convention in American cinema, but in a brotherly/sisterly community in which the social divide between rich and poor is overcome.

This spark (Iskra) is no less electrifying today than Francisco de Goya's Capriccios or Ludwig van Beethoven's Eroica.

Timothy Grossman



Battleship Potemkin [Bronenossez Potjomkin]
SU 1925, Director: Sergei Eisenstein with Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, 75 min, OmeU


100 YEARS Battleship Potemkin [Ome)] 
Live soundtrack with the original music by Edmund Meisel performed by the Babylon Orchestra Berlin, conductor George Morton