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Sergei Eisenstein

22 films · 1923 to 2010
Born 23 January 1898, Riga, Russian Empire · Died 11 February 1948

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, he was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1945/1958). In its decennial poll, the magazine Sight and Sound named his Battleship Potemkin the 54th-greatest film of all time.

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Sergei Eisenstein

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Defining films

Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin
1925
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1928
Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Nevsky
1938
Strike
Strike
1925

Critical context

January 23,1898, Riga, Latvia d. February 11, 1948, Moscow, USSR

Source: Senses of Cinema, Great Directors

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