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The Semiotics of Color in Soviet Montage Films

Quick fact

In 1925's 'Battleship Potemkin', Eisenstein famously hand-tinted the red flag to make it appear blood-red, a color meant to evoke revolution and uprising.

Why this is interesting

Have you ever noticed a single red object in a black-and-white film and felt a jolt? In Soviet montage films of the 1920s, such color choices were not mere decoration—they were deliberate messages loaded with ideological meaning.