Introduction
Celebrated as a pioneer of film art from the 1920s, Sergei Eisenstein was a Soviet director and film theorist. His films were revolutionary in their style and content, combining images of immense graphic force with editing of unprecedented inventiveness.
“The greatest and most many-sided intellect to have devoted himself to the cinema in the half-century of its history to date, is unquestionably the Russian director, S.M. Eisenstein.”
Ernest Lindgren, introduction to the published screenplay of Que Viva Mexico!, 1951
Highlighted works
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The first part of Sergei Eisenstein’s truncated masterpiece about the 16th-century Russian Tsar sees young Ivan attempting to unite Russia under a single ruler.
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A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Sergei Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content.
Filmography
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Treatment 2015
[Subject of Film]
1998
Die VERSCHIEDENEN GESICHETER DES SERGEI EISENSTEIN
[Subject of Film]
1998
SERGEI EISENSTEIN: MEXIKANSKAYA FANTASIYA
[Subject of Film]
1997
[Subject of Film]
1995
SERGEJ EJZENSTEIJN: AVTOBIOGRAFIJA
[Subject of Film]
1988
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1987
The SECRET LIFE OF SERGEI EISENSTEIN
[Subject of Film]
1984
Eisenstein: Programme of Attractions
[Subject of Film]
1979
Based on material by
1977
[Subject of Film]
1970
[Subject of Programme]
1970
[Subject of Programme]
1969
Policeman
1968
[Subject of Film]
1967
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Screenplay (2nd Version)
[Shooting Script]1958
IVAN GROZNI II BOYARSKI ZAGOROV
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Based on sketches by
Based on sketches by1957
Study for a Mexican Film by Eisenstein
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on-screen participant1955
[anger's Version of Que Viva Mexico!]
Based on material by
1945
Based on sketches by
Based on sketches by1943
[Director of original footage]
Original Script by1942
Based on material by
1941
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1941
Speechmaker
1939
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Screenplay1939
Based on material by
1938
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Based on models by1934
Based on material by
1933
Based on material by
1933
Based on material by
1932
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1931
[Oaxaca Earthquake Footage - Untitled]
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1931
[Film for Partido National Revolutionario]
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1931
cast member
1930
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Screenplay1930
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Supervising Director
Editor1929
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Victorious Independent-General1929
[Produced] in cooperation with
policeman (uncredited)1928
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Editor1925
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Screenplay1925
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From the screenplay for '1905 God' by
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Music (1926, based on themes by Bach)1925
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Editor1923
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