1898 - 1948
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. He was 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 3,101,150 page views. His biography is available in 112 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2019). Sergei Eisenstein is the 11th most popular film director, the most popular biography from Latvia and the most popular Latvian Film Director.
Sergei Eisenstein is most famous for his work on the films Battleship Potemkin and October. He was a Russian filmmaker who made many films in the Soviet Union.
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Among film directors, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 11 out of 1,581. Before him are Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Hayao Miyazaki, Woody Allen, and Ridley Scott. After him are Roman Polanski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Jean-Luc Godard.
1920 - 1993
HPI: 79.23
Rank: 5
1928 - 1999
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 6
1918 - 2007
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 7
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 8
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 9
1937 - Present
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 10
1898 - 1948
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 11
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 12
1922 - 1975
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 13
1906 - 1976
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 14
1900 - 1983
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 15
1932 - 1986
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 16
1930 - 2022
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1898, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 5. Before him are Bertolt Brecht, René Magritte, Alvar Aalto, and Erich Maria Remarque. After him are Federico García Lorca, Golda Meir, M. C. Escher, Enzo Ferrari, Zhou Enlai, George Gershwin, and Umm Kulthum. Among people deceased in 1948, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 2. Before him is Mahatma Gandhi. After him are Mileva Marić, Osamu Dazai, Hideki Tojo, Edvard Beneš, Franz Lehár, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Antonin Artaud, Andrei Zhdanov, Walther von Brauchitsch, and Karl Brandt.
1898 - 1956
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 1
1898 - 1967
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 2
1898 - 1976
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 3
1898 - 1970
HPI: 76.51
Rank: 4
1898 - 1948
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 5
1898 - 1936
HPI: 75.99
Rank: 6
1898 - 1978
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 7
1898 - 1972
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 8
1898 - 1988
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 9
1898 - 1976
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 10
1898 - 1937
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 11
1898 - 1975
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 12
1869 - 1948
HPI: 88.49
Rank: 1
1898 - 1948
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 2
1875 - 1948
HPI: 73.11
Rank: 3
1909 - 1948
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 4
1884 - 1948
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 5
1884 - 1948
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 6
1870 - 1948
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 7
1861 - 1948
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 8
1896 - 1948
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 9
1896 - 1948
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 10
1881 - 1948
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 11
1904 - 1948
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 12
Among people born in Latvia, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 1 out of 284. After him are Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Mark Rothko (1903), Mikhail Tal (1936), Isaiah Berlin (1909), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Mariss Jansons (1943), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), and Aron Nimzowitsch (1886).
1898 - 1948
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 1
1853 - 1932
HPI: 72.63
Rank: 2
1903 - 1970
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 3
1936 - 1992
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 4
1909 - 1997
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 5
1761 - 1818
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 6
1882 - 1950
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 7
1948 - Present
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 8
1943 - 2019
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 9
1877 - 1942
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 10
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 11
1886 - 1935
HPI: 61.43
Rank: 12
Among film directors born in Latvia, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 1. After him are Rosa von Praunheim (1942) and Fridrikh Ermler (1898).
1898 - 1948
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 1
1942 - Present
HPI: 49.99
Rank: 2
1898 - 1967
HPI: 45.51
Rank: 3