Category : Cinema

Odessa is an international brand because on the cinema. The famous scene of the slaughter on the Potemkin Stairway on the film “Battleship Potemkin” (Ejzenstein, 1925) made Odessa famous worldwide. Due to the cinema studios city well deserved the nickname of “Hollywood of Soviet Union”. Today, the city hosts each year the Odessa International Film Festival, the most important of Ukraine and Black Sea countries, and there is a museum dedicated to the old film studios. The Odessa Journal provides news in English on Odessa Film Festival’s contents.