Sergei Eisenstein
Born: 1898-01-23 in Riga, Russian Empire
Died: 1948-02-11
Known For: Directing
Biography
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (23 January 1898 — 11 February 1948) was a pioneering Soviet film director and film theorist, often considered to be the 'Father of Montage'. Noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1927), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958), his work profoundly influenced early filmmakers owing to his innovative use of and writings about montage.
Filmography
2026
- Idols Behind Altars: A Poetic Reverie for Anita Brenner ... (Director)
2017
1998
- Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy as Himself
- The Different Faces of Sergei Eisenstein
- Eisenstein: The Master's House as Self (archive footage)
1993
1984
1979
- ¡Qué Viva México! ... (Director)
1974
- TsOKS in Alma-Ata as Archive footage
1968
- Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film ... (Director)
1963
- The Magic Beam as Self (archive footage)
1958
- Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot ... (Writer)
- Sergei Eisenstein as Self (archive footage)
1955
- Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study ... (Director)
1944
- Ivan the Terrible, Part I ... (Writer)
1943
- Seeds of Freedom ... (Writer)
1942
- The Magic Seed ... (Producer)
1941
- Swineherd and Shepherd ... (Producer)
- To the Jews of the Whole World! as С.Эйзенштейн
- An Appeal to the Jews of the World
1940
- Time in the Sun ... (Director)
- Our Cinema as (archive footage)
1938
- Alexander Nevsky ... (Director)
1934
- Death Day ... (Director)
1933
- Thunder Over Mexico ... (Director)
- Eisenstein in Mexico as Self
1932
- Hurray Mexico! ... (Director)
1931
- We’re Switching to Hollywood as Self (uncredited)
- The Disaster in Oaxaca ... (Director)
- Sentimental Romance ... (Director)
1930
- Misery and Fortune of Woman ... (Supervisor of Production Resources)
- Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican Footage of the Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe ... (Director)
1929
- The General Line ... (Director)
- Every Day as Policeman
1928
- October (Ten Days that Shook the World) ... (Screenplay)
1925
- Battleship Potemkin as Odessa Citizen
- Strike ... (Director)
1923
- Glumov's Diary as Sergei Eisenstein