1898 - 1948
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 2,419,774 page views. His biography is available in 108 different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Eisenstein is the 11th most popular film director (down from 9th in 2019), 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 1,580. Before him are Hayao Miyazaki, Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, and Woody Allen. After him are Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, Andrei Tarkovsky, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ridley Scott, and Leni Riefenstahl.
1941 - Present
HPI: 84.84
Rank: 5
1910 - 1998
HPI: 84.43
Rank: 6
1933 - Present
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 7
1918 - 2007
HPI: 83.84
Rank: 8
1920 - 1993
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 9
1935 - Present
HPI: 82.76
Rank: 10
1898 - 1948
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 11
1929 - 1989
HPI: 81.54
Rank: 12
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.12
Rank: 13
1932 - 1986
HPI: 81.03
Rank: 14
1922 - 1975
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 15
1937 - Present
HPI: 80.70
Rank: 16
1902 - 2003
HPI: 80.52
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1898, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 4. Before him are Bertolt Brecht, René Magritte, and Erich Maria Remarque. After him are Golda Meir, Federico García Lorca, Alvar Aalto, M. C. Escher, Enzo Ferrari, George Gershwin, Zhou Enlai, and C. S. Lewis. Among people deceased in 1948, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 2. Before him is Mahatma Gandhi. After him are Mileva Marić, Edvard Beneš, Hideki Tojo, Franz Lehár, Antonin Artaud, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Walther von Brauchitsch, Andrei Zhdanov, Folke Bernadotte, and Osamu Dazai.
1898 - 1956
HPI: 85.13
Rank: 1
1898 - 1967
HPI: 83.65
Rank: 2
1898 - 1970
HPI: 82.62
Rank: 3
1898 - 1948
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 4
1898 - 1978
HPI: 81.68
Rank: 5
1898 - 1936
HPI: 81.64
Rank: 6
1898 - 1976
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 7
1898 - 1972
HPI: 80.57
Rank: 8
1898 - 1988
HPI: 80.15
Rank: 9
1898 - 1937
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 10
1898 - 1976
HPI: 79.16
Rank: 11
1898 - 1963
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 12
1869 - 1948
HPI: 91.71
Rank: 1
1898 - 1948
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 2
1875 - 1948
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 3
1884 - 1948
HPI: 78.23
Rank: 4
1884 - 1948
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 5
1870 - 1948
HPI: 77.65
Rank: 6
1896 - 1948
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 7
1861 - 1948
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 8
1881 - 1948
HPI: 77.04
Rank: 9
1896 - 1948
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 10
1895 - 1948
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 11
1909 - 1948
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 12
Among people born in Latvia, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 1 out of 242. After him are Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Mikhail Tal (1936), Mark Rothko (1903), Isaiah Berlin (1909), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Jānis Lūsis (1939), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Mariss Jansons (1943), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), and Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948).
1898 - 1948
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 1
1853 - 1932
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 2
1936 - 1992
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 3
1903 - 1970
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 4
1909 - 1997
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 5
1761 - 1818
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 6
1939 - 2020
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 7
1882 - 1950
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 8
1943 - 2019
HPI: 71.72
Rank: 9
1877 - 1942
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 10
1937 - Present
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 11
1948 - Present
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 12
Among film directors born in Latvia, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 1. After him are Rosa von Praunheim (1942).