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 (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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  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.