Sergei M. Eisenstein

Portraits (3)
BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN (1925) (1)
OKTIABR (1928) (1)

Celebrated as a pioneer of film art from the 1920s, Sergei Eisenstein was a Soviet director and film theorist. His films were revolutionary in their style and content, combining images of immense graphic force with editing of unprecedented inventiveness.

“The greatest and most many-sided intellect to have devoted himself to the cinema in the half-century of its history to date, is unquestionably the Russian director, S.M. Eisenstein.”
Ernest Lindgren, introduction to the published screenplay of Que Viva Mexico!, 1951

Highlighted works

IVAN GROZNI

The first part of Sergei Eisenstein’s truncated masterpiece about the 16th-century Russian Tsar sees young Ivan attempting to unite Russia under a single ruler.

BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN

A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Sergei Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content.

Filmography

1923

DNEVNIK GLUMOVA Director
Editor
Art Director

1925

1905 GOD Director
Screenplay
STACHKA Director
Script
Editor
BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN Director
Screenplay
From the screenplay for '1905 God' by
Editor
Music (1926, based on themes by Bach)

1928

OKTIABR Director
Screenplay
Editor

1929

STAROIE I NOVOE Director
Screenplay
Editor
STURM ÜBER LA SARRAZ Director
Script
Victorious Independent-General
Every Day [Produced] in cooperation with
policeman

1930

Que Viva Mexico! Director
Screenplay
ROMANCE SENTIMENTALE Director
Editor
FRAUENNOT - FRAUENGLÜCK Supervising Director
Editor

1931

[Oaxaca Earthquake Footage - Untitled] Director
[Film for Partido National Revolutionario] Director
Wir Schalten Um Auf Hollywood cast member

1932

Que Viva Mexico! (Production Material) Director

1933

Thunder over Mexico Based on material by
Eisenstein in Mexico Based on material by

1934

Death Day Based on material by

1938

ALEKSANDR NEVSKI Director
Screenplay
Editor
Based on models by

1939

BOLCHOI FERGANSKI KANAL Director
Screenplay
Time in the Sun Based on material by

1941

VOLSHEBNOYE ZERNO Director
EISENSTEIN SPEAKS TO YOU Speechmaker

1942

Mexican Symphony Based on material by

1943

Seeds of Freedom [Director of original footage]
Original Script by

1945

IVAN GROZNI Director
Screenplay
Editor
Based on sketches by
Based on sketches by

1955

[anger's Version of Que Viva Mexico!] Based on material by

1957

Study for a Mexican Film by Eisenstein Based on material by
on-screen participant

1958

IVAN GROZNI II BOYARSKI ZAGOROV Director
Screenplay
Editor
Based on sketches by
Based on sketches by

1967

BEZHIN LUG Director
Screenplay (2nd Version)
[Shooting Script]

1968

Eisenstein, Mexico 1931 [Subject of Film]

1969

Everyday Policeman

1970

Eisenstein [Part One] [Subject of Programme]
Eisenstein [Part Two] [Subject of Programme]

1977

Eisenstein's Mexico [Subject of Film]

1979

QUE VIVA MEXICO! Based on material by

1997

DOM MASTERA [Subject of Film]

1998

SERGEI EISENSTEIN: MEXIKANSKAYA FANTASIYA [Subject of Film]
Die VERSCHIEDENEN GESICHETER DES SERGEI EISENSTEIN [Subject of Film]

Unknown year

The Glass House Director
Treatment
The Glass House Director
Treatment
An American Tragedy Director
Treatment
An American Tragedy Director
Treatment
Sutter's Gold Director
Treatment
Sutter's Gold Director
Treatment