Sergei M. Eisenstein

Sergei M. Eisenstein
Date of Birth: 20 Jan 1898
Country: Soviet Union
Biography: Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director and film theorist, 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 (1944, 1958). (Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 5 (Actor), 16 (Director), 10 (Writer)
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Battleship Potemkin
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre.
Ivan the Terrible, Part Two
As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
October: Ten Days That Shook the World
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year (imdb)
Strike
In Russia's factory region during Czarist rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents... (imdb)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One
In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory... (imdb)
Alexander Nevsky
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights. (imdb)
¡Que Viva Mexico!
Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state. (imdb)
The General Line
This is Eisenstein's only completed film about a contemporary subject. It depicts the mechanization and collectivization of a farm, focusing on a peasant woman fighting greed and superstition. It contains several striking examples of Eisenstein's montage technique. (ihffilm.com)
Thunder Over Mexico
As was common in Diaz's Mexico, a young hacienda worker finds his betrothed imprisoned and his life threatened by his master for confronting a hacienda guest for raping the girl. (imdb)
Bezhin lug
Bezhin lug (1937) - Short Film
A Soviet farmer son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society. (imdb)
The Storming of La Sarraz
A farcical war between the forces of Commercial Cinema and Independent Cinema. (imdb)
Romance sentimentale
Avant-garde short.
La destrucción de Oaxaca
Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico. (imdb)
Dnevnik Glumova
Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little film. (imdb)
Death Day
Death Day (1934) - Short Film
The enormous amont of film shot by Eisenstein in Mexico was never edited or completed. However it provided footage for works edited by others, of which this is one. Death Day is a record of a curious Mexican holiday taken from the Aztec feast for the dead. For one day, death rules supreme in the form of candy skulls, death toys, processions of skeletons, and funereal masks; yet it also seems strangely, almost benevolently, integrated into life, the fear of it weakened by mockery and familiarity. (Amos Vogel)
¡Que viva Mexico!
Having revolutionized film editing through such masterworks of montage as Potemkin and Strike, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein emigrated west in hopes of testing the capabilities of the American film industry. (imdb)