Sergei Eisenstein
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American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
— Sergei Eisenstein (1957) Film form [and]: The film sense; two complete and unabridged works. p. 196
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
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- Momentum15.0
- Directors rank#17
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- Fame80.7
- Momentum15.0
- Directors rank#17
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Lived 1898–1948, aged 50
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He turned editing itself into an art form. Eisenstein didn't just cut film — he built a theory of montage that taught the world how images collide to create meaning, and proved it with silent works that still land a century later.
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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was born in January 1898 and came up through Soviet cinema in the 1920s, where he directed Strike in 1925 and then Battleship Potemkin the same year — the latter eventually named by Sight and Sound as the 54th-greatest film ever made. October followed in 1928, closing out a silent trilogy that cemented his place as a pioneer in montage theory and practice. He shifted to sound with the historical epic Alexander Nevsky in 1938, then spent years on Ivan the Terrible, released in two parts in 1945 and 1958. He died in February 1948, halfway through that final project…
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- Stalin Prize
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Badge of Honour
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
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