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Sergej Michajlovič Ejzenštejn

1898 – 1948

About this person

Wikipedia Summary

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.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth

January 10, 1898

Riga

Date of death

February 11, 1948

Moscow

Citizenship

Russian Empire · Soviet Union · Russia

Occupations & fields

film directorinventorfilm editorscreenwriterteachercinematographer

Awards & honours

Stalin PrizeOrder of LeninOrder of the Badge of HonourMedal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist RepublicMedal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Notable works

October: Ten Days That Shook the WorldBattleship PotemkinThe General Line