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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein[ a] (22 January [ O.S. 10 January] 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. He was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. [ 1]
Sergei Eisenstein was a Russian filmmaker who is often credited with revolutionizing the film industry. He is best known for his silent films, particularly Battleship Potemkin (1925), which was instrumental in the development of montage theory and for creating the “Ten Commandments” of cinematic technique.
Sergei Eisenstein. Director: Ivan the Terrible, Part I. The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army.
3 Jan 2024 · From Sentimental Romance to Battleship Potemkin, these are Sergei Eisenstein movies, according to IMDb.
This list contains films by Russian writer/director Sergei Eisenstein. Notes: #1: Dnevnik Glumova (1923) and Romance Sentimentale (1930) are short films. #2: ¡Que Viva México! (1932) is produced in Mexico and Romance Sentimentale (1930) is produced in France.
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage." He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1927), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).
Having revolutionized film editing through such masterworks of montage as Potemkin and Strike, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein emigrated west in hopes of testing the capabilities of the American film industry.