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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein 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 practi
Eisenstein c. 1920s
The young Eisenstein with his parents Mikhail and Julia Eisenstein
With Japanese kabuki actor Sadanji Ichikawa II, Moscow, 1928
Eisenstein in 1939
Ivan the Terrible is a two-part Soviet historical drama film produced, written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein. The film chronicles the reign of 16th-century Russian Tsar Ivan IV and details his for
Sergei Eisenstein
…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 decennial poll, the magazine Sight and Sound named his Battleship Potemkin the 54th-greatest film of all time. Sergei Eisenstein…
Theatrical poster
A 1942 drawing of Queen Elizabeth I made by Eisenstein for the film. Elizabeth was intended to have been portrayed by Mikhail Romm.
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 by Ilya Repin, made in the 1880s. Eisenstein considered writing an ending where Ivan dies alone after murdering his son.