Filmography: Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein ( Russian : Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, romanised : Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; 22 January 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, he was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike , Battleship Potemkin (both 1925) and October (1928), as well as historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1945/1958). Strike [ Стачка , Stachka ] (1925) A group of oppressed factory workers strike in pre-revolutionary Russia. Battleship Potemkin [ Броненосец Потёмкин , Bronenosets Potyomkin ] (1925) A dramatisation of a great Russian naval mutiny and its resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. October: Ten Days That Shook the World [ Октябрь: Десять дней, которые потрясли мир , Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir ] (1928) In documentary style, events in Petrograd are reenacted from the end of the monarchy in February 1917 to the end of the provisional government. The General Line [ Старое и новое , Staroye i novoye ] (1929) 100.000.000 peasants – illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can no longer live old life. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress, she changes her village's life and labour. Alexander Nevsky [ Алекса́ндр Не́вский ] (1938) In 13th-century Russia, foreign invaders are on the loose. Knyaz (prince) Alexander Nevsky rallies the people to form a ragtag army to drive back an invasion by the Teutonic knights. Ivan the Terrible [ Иван Грозный , Ivan Grozny ] (1944/1958) [ edited into a single film ] Part I : During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Part II : As Ivan attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.