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 thesurrounding streets}, the movie has made many people see in the “OdessaSteps” the alleged place of bloodbath. The "Odessa Steps" {now known asthe “Potemkin Steps”, by architect Francesco Boffo} got a tourist attraction – the movie has exaggerate the place.
www.an-architecture.com/2008/08/architecture-film-baby-falling-down.html