Sergei Eisenstein

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Russian person Soviet citizen film director film theorist screenwriter

Sergei Eisenstein was a pioneering Soviet film director and theorist, best known for his innovative montage techniques in classics like "Battleship Potemkin" that profoundly shaped the language of cinema.

Aliases (4)

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Russian person → Soviet citizen → film director → film theorist → screenwriter →
awardReceived	Stalin Prize →
birthDate	1898-01-22 →
birthPlace	Governorate of Livonia → Riga → Russian Empire →
burialPlace	Novodevichy Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	heart attack →
citizenship	Soviet Union →
countryOfCitizenship	Soviet Union →
deathDate	1948-02-11 →
deathPlace	Moscow → Russian SFSR → Soviet Union →
educatedAt	Petrograd Institute of Civil Engineering →
employer	Mosfilm → VGIK →
familyName	Eisenstein →
fullName	Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein →
genre	historical drama film → silent film →
givenName	Sergei →
influenced	Alfred Hitchcock → Andrei Tarkovsky → Jean-Luc Godard → Orson Welles → global film editing practices →
influencedBy	Karl Marx → Lev Kuleshov → Vsevolod Meyerhold → dialectical materialism →
knownFor	development of montage theory → innovative film editing techniques → silent cinema classics →
languageOfWorkOrName	Russian →
movement	Soviet montage school →
nationality	Russian → Soviet →
notableWork	Alexander Nevsky → Battleship Potemkin → Ivan the Terrible, Part I → Ivan the Terrible, Part II → October: Ten Days That Shook the World → Strike → The General Line →
occupation	film director → film theorist → screenwriter →
spouse	Pera Atasheva →
taughtAt	VGIK →
theorized	intellectual montage → metric montage → overtonal montage → rhythmic montage → tonal montage →
wrote	Film Form → The Film Sense →

Referenced by (32)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Battleship Potemkin → Ivan the Terrible, Part I → Ivan the Terrible, Part II → October: Ten Days That Shook the World → Strike → The General Line →	director
Battleship Potemkin → Ivan the Terrible, Part I → Ivan the Terrible, Part II → October: Ten Days That Shook the World → The General Line →	screenwriter
Film Form → The Film Sense → The Film Sense ("Sergei M. Eisenstein") →	author
D. W. Griffith → Lev Kuleshov →	influenced
Film Form ("Sergei Eisenstein’s films") →	about
Novodevichy Cemetery →	burialPlaceOf
Ivan the Terrible, Part I →	editedBy
Sergei Eisenstein ("Eisenstein") →	familyName
Sergei Eisenstein ("Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein") →	fullName
Film Form →	hasAuthor
People's Artist of the USSR →	hasNotableRecipient
Akira Kurosawa →	influencedBy
VGIK →	notableAlumnus
Pera Atasheva →	notableAssociate
Kremlin Wall Necropolis →	notableBurial
Soviet montage school →	notableFigure
Ivan the Terrible, Part II →	producer
Pera Atasheva →	spouse
Soviet montage school →	theorizedBy
Strike →	writtenBy