Sergei Eisenstein
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Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures (1898-1948)
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Film, as a means of influencing a largely illiterate society, received encouragement from the state; much of director Sergei Eisenstein 's best work dates from this period.
He may have been involved in arranging to bring Sergei Eisenstein 's groundbreaking film The Battleship Potemkin (1925) to US audiences for the first time.
Sergei Eisenstein 's Battleship Potemkin was released to wide acclaim in 1925; the film was heavily fictionalized and also propagandistic, giving the party line about the virtues of the proletariat.
He also began studying film theory by reading books about other famous directors, such as Sergei Eisenstein along with how-to books about the craft of film making.
Ilyin L.A., ed. Sergei Eisenstein Selected Works in Six Volumes, Volume 1. Moscow: Iskusstvo. p. 29 His father was an architect and his mother was the daughter of a prosperous merchant.
Overview Sergei Eisenstein and many other Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s expressed ideas of Marxism through film.