Sergei Eisenstein

1898 - 1948

country of citizenship: Russian Empire, Soviet Union

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

educated at: Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

occupation: film director, inventor, film editor, screenwriter, teacher, cinematographer, drawer, photographer, director

award received: Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, Order of the Badge of Honour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. 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 (1944, 1958). In its 2012 decennial poll, the magazine Sight & Sound named his Battleship Potemkin the 11th-greatest film of all time. Source: Wikipedia (en)