1920s Soviet Union

Pioneer of Soviet montage cinema who created revolutionary works like *Battleship Potemkin* (1925) and *October: Ten Days That Shook the World* (1928) that directly celebrated the Bolshevik Revolution and early Soviet ideology.

Avant-garde filmmaker who developed the *Kino-Pravda* documentary movement to capture the energy and transformation of 1920s Soviet society through experimental visual techniques.