Artist William Kentridge included a drawing of Eisenstein in his solo museum exhibition at The Broad in Los Angeles
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Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, 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 Terribl…
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entertainment · Soviet-Russian filmmaker and theorist (1898–1948) · film director · inventor · film editor · screenwriter · teacher · cinematographer · draftsperson · photographer · director · theatre designer · also Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich Eizenshtein, Sergej Eisenstein, Sergeiĭ Mikhaiĭlovich Aiĭzenshtaiĭn
Born 10 January 1898 · Died 11 February 1948 · Q8003
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2018· 3 entries
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Who was Sergei Eisenstein? Google honors Soviet film pioneer, ‘father of montage’
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Search Engine Land: Sergei Eisenstein Google doodle honors Soviet film director known as the ‘Father of Montage’
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UPI: Google honors filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein with new Doodle
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2017· 1 entry
Dollars) and arrived in Hollywood in May 1930, along with Aleksandrov and Tisse
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1998· 1 entry
Oleg Kovalov edited a free version of the film, calling it "Mexican Fantasy"
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1978· 1 entry
Gregori Aleksandrov released – with the same name in contravention to the copyright – his own version, which was awarded the Honorable Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival in 1979
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1948· 2 entries
Died 1948-02-11.
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“This is Paul Robeson, the greatest American singer!” declared the famous film director, Eisenstein, introducing Robeson to a reception in his honor, attended by nearly all the celebrities in Moscow’s theatre and art world.”
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1941· 2 entries
Awarded Stalin Prize (1941).
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Alexander Nevsky was re-released with a wide distribution and earned international success
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1939).
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1935· 1 entry
Eisenstein was assigned another project, Bezhin Meadow, but it appears the film was afflicted with many of the same problems as ¡Que viva México
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1933· 1 entry
And 1934 was in charge of writing the curriculum
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1929· 1 entry
In Switzerland, Eisenstein supervised an educational documentary about abortion directed by Tisse, entitled Frauennot – Frauenglück
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1925· 1 entry
During a 1925 interview, Aleksandrov witnessed Eisenstein tell the Polish journalist Wacław Solski: "I'm not interested in girls" and burst out laughing, then quickly stopped and turned red with embarrassment.
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1923· 1 entry
By writing "The Montage of Attractions" for art journal LEF
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1920· 2 entries
Sergei was transferred to a command position in Minsk, after success in providing propaganda for the October Revolution
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And began his career in theatre working for Proletkult, an experimental Soviet artistic institution which aspired to radically modify existing artistic forms and create a revolutionary working-class aesthetic
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1918· 1 entry
Left school and joined the Red Army to participate in the Russian Civil War, although his father Mikhail supported the opposite side
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1915· 1 entry
Studied at Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (1915).
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-01-10.
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1897· 1 entry
While his mother, Julia Ivanovna Konetskaya, came from a Russian Orthodox family
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