FILM DIRECTOR

Sergei Eisenstein

1898 - 1948

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ɪjzʲɪnˈʂtʲejn], tr. Sergey Mikhaylovich Eizenshteyn; 22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergei Eisenstein has received more than 2,303,507 page views. His biography is available in 108 different languages on Wikipedia making him the 9th most popular film director.

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  • 108

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Filmography

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 9 out of 1,305. Before him are Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, and Woody Allen. After him are Roman Polanski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott, and Luchino Visconti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 5. Before him are René Magritte, Bertolt Brecht, Erich Maria Remarque, and Golda Meir. After him are Federico García Lorca, Alvar Aalto, M. C. Escher, Enzo Ferrari, Zhou Enlai, Herbert Marcuse, and George Gershwin. Among people deceased in 1948, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 2. Before him is Mahatma Gandhi. After him are Mileva Marić, Franz Lehár, Edvard Beneš, Hideki Tojo, Antonin Artaud, Walther von Brauchitsch, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Osamu Dazai, Andrei Zhdanov, and Folke Bernadotte.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 1 out of 161. After him are Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Mikhail Tal (1936), Isaiah Berlin (1909), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), Aron Nimzowitsch (1886), and Jacob Kettler (1610).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Latvia

Among film directors born in Latvia, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 1. 

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