Sergei Eisenstein
Born: 1898-01-23 in Riga, Russian Empire
Died: 1948-02-11
Known For: Directing
Biography
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage." He is 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
2017
2010
- Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930 ... (Director)
1998
- Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy as Himself
- Eisenstein: The Master's House as Self (archive footage)
- The Different Faces of Sergei Eisenstein
1993
1984
1979
- ¡Qué Viva México! ... (Screenplay)
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)
1944
- Ivan the Terrible, Part I ... (Writer)
1943
- Seeds of Freedom ... (Director)
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
- Our Cinema as (archive footage)
- Time in the Sun ... (Director)
1938
- Alexander Nevsky ... (Director)
1934
- Death Day ... (Director)
1933
- Thunder Over Mexico ... (Director)
- Eisenstein in Mexico as Self
1932
- Hurray Mexico! ... (Director)
- Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study ... (Director)
1931
- Sentimental Romance ... (Director)
- We're switching to Hollywood as Self (uncredited)
- The Disaster in Oaxaca ... (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
- Every Day as Policeman
- The Storming of La Sarraz as Commander of the Army of Independents
- The General Line ... (Scenario Writer)
1928
- October (Ten Days that Shook the World) ... (Screenplay)
1925
- Battleship Potemkin as Odessa Citizen
- Strike ... (Director)
1923
- Glumov's Diary as Sergei Eisenstein