Sergei Eisenstein

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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.

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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
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fullName Sergei Eisenstein self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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

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Battleship Potemkin screenwriter Sergei Eisenstein
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I director Sergei Eisenstein
Ivan the Terrible, Part I screenwriter Sergei Eisenstein
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Ivan the Terrible, Part II screenwriter Sergei Eisenstein
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