J. Hoberman reviewed the film for The Village Voice, and wrote that "Marker begins by evoking Battleship Potemkin, and although hardly agitprop, A Grin Without a Cat is in that tradition—a montage film with a mass hero. Unlike Eisenstein, however, Marker isn't out to invent historical truth so much as to look for it."
Animator John McGrew borrowed much of the staging for the cartoon from Sergei Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin.
The film, inspired by The Battleship Potemkin, portrayed the event as part of the class struggle and was also directed against the then-disgraced underground party activists; the role of the traitor Lucan was based on Vasile Luca (who participated in the preparations for the strike), fictionalised as the embodiment of human abjectness.
When the Russian Battleship Potemkin arrived in Odessa that evening, thousands of Odessans went to the port to watch the battleship and support the mutinous sailors.
In early 2007, Del Rey & The Sun Kings released a new score to the classic silent film Battleship Potemkin on CD and DVD, garnering considerable attention and favourable reviews.
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Other classic reissues he helped to make viable include Alexander Korda's The Thief of Bagdad; the first reissue of Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl; Von Stroheim's Queen Kelly; the 50th anniversary restoration of The Bicycle Thief; and recent high-def restorations of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and Albert Parker's The Black Pirate.
Eric has scored over 30 movies and over 500 episodes of television and is best known for his scores to “Legend”, “Battleship Potemkin”, “Latter Days”, “Witless Protection”, “Mike Hammer Private Eye”, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and “Dante's Cove”.
Ippolit Giliarovsky was the second in command as a frigate captain of the Battleship Potemkin during the mutiny.