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Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Defining Films
Profile
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 Essay (Excerpt)
January 23,1898, Riga, Latvia d. February 11, 1948, Moscow, USSR
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
Filmography (22)
Battleship Potemkin
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Alexander Nevsky
Strike
Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930
Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy
¡Qué Viva México!
Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film
Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study
Seeds of Freedom
Time in the Sun
Death Day
Eisenstein in Mexico
Thunder Over Mexico
Hurray Mexico!
The Disaster in Oaxaca
Sentimental Romance
Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican Footage of the Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe
Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican Footage of the Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe
The General Line
Glumov's Diary