The scene is well-known: the sequence of the baby falling down the Odessa Steps in Sergei Eisenstein’s movie The Battleship Potyomkin (1925) is one of the most influential films in movie history (many films pay homage to the scene like Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables).
Although, the massacre on the steps is fictional (it took place in the surrounding streets), the movie has made many people see in the “Odessa Steps” the alleged place of bloodbath. The "Odessa Steps" (now known as the “Potemkin Steps”, by architect Francesco Boffo) got a tourist attraction – the movie has exaggerate the place.
The total height of the stair is about 30 meters (192 steps) – connecting the harbor to the city center. The 142 meter long stair has been built perspectively: upstairs about 13 meter and downstairs 21 meter – a (movie) stage-like effect! It makes the stair from below much longer and from top almost “perspective-less”.
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