Sergei Eisenstein

Known for DirectingBorn 1898-01-23Died 1948-02-11Riga, Russian Empire

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage." He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1927), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958). His work profoundly influenced early filmmakers owing to his innovative use of and writings about montage.Read more

Movies & web series

Eisenstein: The Master's House

Eisenstein en México

Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography

Our Cinema

Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study

Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

Battleship Potemkin

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Strike

Island of the Dead

¡Qué Viva México!

Hurray Mexico!

Alexander Nevsky

Every Day

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

Thunder Over Mexico

Sentimental Romance

Misery and Fortune of Woman

The General Line

Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film

The Disaster in Oaxaca

Time in the Sun

Death Day

The Magic Seed

Sergei/Sir Gay

Eisenstein in Mexico

We’re Switching to Hollywood

Swineherd and Shepherd

Glumov's Diary

Seeds of Freedom

The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930

The Worlds of Mei Lanfang

The Different Faces of Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein. Foreword

Sergei Eisenstein. Post Scriptum

TsOKS in Alma-Ata

The Magic Beam

Sergei Eisenstein

An Appeal to the Jews of the World

To the Jews of the Whole World!

Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican Footage of the Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe

Mexico Marches

Zapotec Village

Idol of Hope

The Conquering Cross

Land and Freedom