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Sergei Eisenstein

Directing

Born January 23, 1898 · Riga, Russian Empire

Died February 11, 1948

Also known as Sergei M. Eisenstein · S. M. Eisenstein · S.M. Eisenstein

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Biography

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Latvian-born 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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Awards & recognition

  • Stalin Prize · 1946
  • Stalin Prize · 1941
  • Order of Lenin · 1939
  • Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
  • Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
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  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
  • Order of the Badge of Honour

Filmography9 titles

Battleship Potemkin

1925as Odessa Citizen

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

1946Director, Producer, Production Design, Writer

Strike

1925Director, Editor, Screenplay

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944Art Direction, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer

Alexander Nevsky

1938Director, Editor, Writer

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

1928Director, Screenplay

Que Viva Mexico

1979Director, Screenplay

The General Line

1929Director, Scenario Writer

Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film

1968Director, Writer