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Person · Director and actor · Active 1924–1944

Sergei Eisenstein

1898–1948, Riga

Soviet director and actor, born in Riga. Directed seven films on this site, including Battleship Potemkin (1925), October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927) and Strike (1925). Among the 8 actors and directors Sergei Eisenstein shares films with on this site, the most frequent are Grigori Aleksandrov (6 films), Joan Crawford (1) and Buster Keaton (1).

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 (1945/1958).

Sergei Eisenstein · authors · CC BY-SA 4.0

Eisenstein taught film-making during his career at VGIK where he wrote the curricula for the directors' course; his classroom illustrations are reproduced in Vladimir Nizhniĭ's Lessons with Eisenstein.

Sergei Eisenstein · authors · CC BY-SA 4.0

In their own words

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

Film Form, edited and translated by Jay Leda (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1949), "Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today", p. 196 · Wikiquote: Sergei Eisenstein · authors · CC BY-SA 4.0

Partners by shared films

  • 1 film7
  • 6 films1 · Grigori Aleksandrov

Who Sergei Eisenstein made films with

8 creators

Cast

in films Sergei Eisenstein directed
One film together 1 film · 1 partner

Co-directors

who directed with Sergei Eisenstein

Co-stars

who acted with Sergei Eisenstein
One film together 1 film · 6 partners

Other regulars

Most films with Sergei Eisenstein on this site
  1. 6Eduard Tisseshot 6 of 8 films

Films in this guide

8 films

Best known

1920s 4 films · 4 as director
1930s 2 films · 1 as director
1940s 2 films · 2 as director