poster · potemkin (1925)
Film · 1925
Battleship Potemkin
Soviet Union · Drama, Historical
Director · Editor · Theorist
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet UnionACTIVE 1923–1946
Sergei Eisenstein
- Born
- 22 January 1898 · Riga, Latvia (then Russian Empire)
- Died
- 11 February 1948 · Moscow, Soviet Union
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Professions
- Director, Editor, Theorist
- Active
- 1923–1946
Eisenstein treated editing as collision: two images strike each other and produce an idea present in neither. His 1920s films are the foundation of the language all cinema inherits.
A teacher and prolific writer, he left in books such as Film Form a theory that still organises the debate about editing.
Career
- 1923–1929
- Avant-garde theatre, Strike, Battleship Potemkin and October.
- 1938–1946
- Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, under the pressure of Stalinism.
Key works
Recommendations · Physical media and books
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Film Form, by Sergei EisensteinBook · Brazilian edition
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