FILM DIRECTOR

Sergei Eisenstein

1898 - 1948

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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 – 11 February 1948) 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). In its 2012 decennial poll, the magazine Sight & Sound named his Battleship Potemkin the 11th-greatest film of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Eisenstein is the 10th most popular film director (up from 13th in 2019), the most popular biography from Latvia and the most popular Latvian Film Director.

Sergei Eisenstein is most famous for his work on the films Battleship Potemkin and October. He was a Russian filmmaker who made many films in the Soviet Union.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 10 out of 2,041. Before him are Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick. After him are Roman Polanski, D. W. Griffith, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar, and Leni Riefenstahl.

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Among people born in 1898, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 7. Before him are Bertolt Brecht, Golda Meir, Erich Maria Remarque, Alvar Aalto, Federico García Lorca, and Enzo Ferrari. After him are René Magritte, Stefania Turkewich, Umm Kulthum, Zhou Enlai, Leo Szilard, and William James Sidis. Among people deceased in 1948, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 4. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Edgar de Wahl. After him are D. W. Griffith, Hideki Tojo, Mileva Marić, Edvard Beneš, Franz Lehár, Osamu Dazai, Edith Roosevelt, and Walther von Brauchitsch.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 1 out of 323. After him are Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Mikhail Tal (1936), Mark Rothko (1903), Isaiah Berlin (1909), Mariss Jansons (1943), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), and Aron Nimzowitsch (1886).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Latvia

Among film directors born in Latvia, Sergei Eisenstein ranks 1. After him are Rosa von Praunheim (1942), Eduard Tisse (1897), Fridrikh Ermler (1898), and Nikolai Ekk (1902).

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