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Biography
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.
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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
Filmography8 titles

Battleship Potemkin
1925as Odessa Citizen
1925as Odessa Citizen

Strike
1925Director, Editor, Screenplay
1925Director, Editor, Screenplay

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1946Director, Producer, Production Design, Writer
1946Director, Producer, Production Design, Writer

Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944Art Direction, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
1944Art Direction, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer

Alexander Nevsky
1938Director, Editor, Writer
1938Director, Editor, Writer

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1928Director, Screenplay
1928Director, Screenplay

Que Viva Mexico
1979Director, Screenplay
1979Director, Screenplay

The General Line
1929Director, Scenario Writer
1929Director, Scenario Writer