Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein
Сергей Эйзенштейн
Eisenstein c. 1920s
Born
Sergei Mikhailovich Eizenshtein

22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898
Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
Died11 February 1948(1948-02-11) (aged 50)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Occupations
Years active1923–1946
Notable work
Spouse
Pera Atasheva
(m. 1934)
AwardsStalin prize (1941, 1946)

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein[a] (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. He was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.[1] 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 (1944, 1958). In its 2012 decennial poll, the magazine Sight & Sound named his Battleship Potemkin the 11th-greatest film of all time.[2]


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  1. ^ Rollberg, Peter (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 204–210. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ^ "The 100 Greatest Films of All Time | Sight & Sound". Archived from the original on August 2, 2012.