Sergei Eisenstein | |
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Сергей Эйзенштейн | |
Born | Sergei Mikhailovich Eizenshtein 22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (now Latvia) |
Died | 11 February 1948 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 50)
Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
Occupations | |
Years active | 1923–1946 |
Notable work |
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Spouse |
Pera Atasheva (m. 1934) |
Awards | Stalin 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 (1945/1958). 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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