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Born January 23, 1898 · Riga, 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.

Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930
2010

Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy
1998

¡Qué Viva México!
1979

Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film
1968

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958

Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study
1955

Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944
Seeds of Freedom
1943

Time in the Sun
1940

Alexander Nevsky
1938

Death Day
1934

Eisenstein in Mexico
1933

Thunder Over Mexico
1933

Hurray Mexico!
1932

Sentimental Romance
1931

The Disaster in Oaxaca
1931
Sergei Eisenstein's Mexican Footage of the Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe
1930

The General Line
1929

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1928

Battleship Potemkin
1925

Strike
1925

Glumov's Diary
1923

The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
2023

Sergei/Sir Gay
2017

The Worlds of Mei Lanfang
2000

Eisenstein: The Master's House
1998

The Different Faces of Sergei Eisenstein
1998

Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy
1998

Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography
1996
Island of the Dead
1993

Eisenstein en México
1984

Sergei Eisenstein. Foreword
1978

Sergei Eisenstein. Post Scriptum
1978
TsOKS in Alma-Ata
1974

The Magic Beam
1963

Sergei Eisenstein
1958

To the Jews of the Whole World!
1941
An Appeal to the Jews of the World
1941

Our Cinema
1940

Eisenstein in Mexico
1933

We’re Switching to Hollywood
1931

Every Day
1929

Battleship Potemkin
1925

Glumov's Diary
1923