Sergei Eisenstein

✶January 22, 1898

†February 11, 1948

No one has lit a candle yet. Be the first.

About their life

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.

Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)

☆ Follow

Biography from the article Sergei Eisenstein on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.