10 Facts About Nina Agadzhanova

Nina Agadzhanova is most widely recognized for writing The Year 1905, the original screenplay from which Battleship Potemkin was created.

From 1914 to 1915 Nina Agadzhanova was a member of the Vyborg Committee of the Bolshevik party in the Petrograd Soviet.

Nina Agadzhanova participated actively in both the February and October Revolutions of 1917.

Nina Agadzhanova later wrote a screenplay based on her experiences during the mission titled In The White Roses.

Nina Agadzhanova began to work as a screenwriter in 1924 at the suggestion of her husband Kirill Shutko, a high-ranking Soviet cultural functionary.

Nina Agadzhanova wrote her first screenplay the same year, entitled In The White Roses.

On 17 March 1925, Nina Agadzhanova was contracted to write a screenplay by a government commission established to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Revolution of 1905.

Nina Agadzhanova disagreed with Eisenstein's desire to take such creative liberties in their recreation of the events of 1905, and Eisenstein agreed to forego incorporating his more eccentric ideas from the screenplay.

In 1929 Nina Agadzhanova co-wrote a script for Two-Buildi-Two with Lev Kuleshov.

Nina Agadzhanova collaborated on Pudovkin on another project in 1934 titled The Intervention, but this film did not make it to production.