Soviet

Sergei Eisenstein

22 films · 1923 to 2010 · 6 on TSPDT
Born 23 January 1898, Riga, Russian Empire · Died 11 February 1948

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist.

Critical context from Senses of Cinema
Sergei Eisenstein

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

In their own words

Eisenstein taught me a lot of formal filmmaking, how to tell a story without using the story, by using a formal strategy.

On Tales from the Gimli Hospital () 72 min · Filmmaker Magazine interview with Guy Maddin

Critical context

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

Source: Senses of Cinema, Great Directors

Films by decade

Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930
Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930
2010

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