Caption: Still of Sergei M. Eisenstein in the original 9 mins version of this 16 mm film which dedicated to the legacy of Sergei M. Eisenstein and the Soviet Film Culture.
Director, Writer, Editor
Born: January 23, 1898
Star sign: Aquarius
Height: 5' 7" (1.7 m)
Known for: Battleship Potemkin (1925), Alexander Nevsky (1938), Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1945), Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958)
Source: IMDB
The son of a affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and then director. The Proletkult's director, Vsevolod ...