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 Terrible (1945/1958).
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- Born in
- Riga
- Educated at
- Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
- Awards
- 🏆 Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic🏆 Order of Lenin🏆 Order of the Badge of Honour🏆 Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"🏆 Stalin Prize
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1898
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Birth1948
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