1. Introduction

2. Strikes, riots and civil commotion: The year 1905 in Russia and the year 1926 in Germany

• BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN after 1926: A first-class vessel became unseaworthy

3. The reaction

• Police censorship
• The permission of BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN and the Bavarian “parallel censorship”
• Concerted (re)action

4. Battleship Potemkin and the democracy

• The silver screen in the democracy: Calling for legal certainty or “Who is lying about Bavaria?”
• The democracy on the silver screen: Changes in film as a result of
  (self-)censorship