Director
Sergei Eisenstein
128 years · Riga, Russian Empire · 39 films
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (23 January 1898 — 11 February 1948) was a pioneering Soviet film director and film theorist, often considered to be the 'Father of Montage'. 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.
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Battleship Potemkin
1925 · Odessa Citizen, Director
On TCM
Strike
1925 · Director, Screenplay
On Kanopy
Alexander Nevsky
1938 · Director, Editor
On Plex
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944 · Writer, Director
On HBO Max
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1928 · Screenplay, Director
On Plex
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958 · Writer, Director
On Kanopy
Filmography 38
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
2023 · Actor
Sergei/Sir Gay
2017 · Actor
The Worlds of Mei Lanfang
2000 · Actor
Eisenstein: The Master's House
1998 · Self (archive footage)
The Different Faces of Sergei Eisenstein
1998 · Actor
Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy
1998 · Himself, Director
Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography
1996 · Actor
Eisenstein en México
1984 · Actor
¡Qué Viva México!
1979 · Screenplay, Director
On Kanopy
Sergei Eisenstein. Foreword
1978 · Actor
Sergei Eisenstein. Post Scriptum
1978 · Actor
Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film
1968 · Director, Writer
The Magic Beam
1963 · Self (archive footage)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958 · Writer, Director
On Kanopy
Sergei Eisenstein
1958 · Self (archive footage)
Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study
1955 · Director
Ivan the Terrible, Part III
1948 · Director
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944 · Writer, Director
On HBO Max
The Magic Seed
1942 · Producer
Swineherd and Shepherd
1941 · Producer
To the Jews of the Whole World!
1941 · С.Эйзенштейн
Time in the Sun
1940 · Director
Our Cinema
1940 · (archive footage)
Alexander Nevsky
1938 · Director, Editor
On Plex