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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (23 January 1898 – 11 February 1948), né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage". He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1927), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).
Eisenstein was born to a middle-class family in Riga, Latvia but his family moved frequently in his early years, as Eisenstein continued to do throughout his life. His father Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein was of German-Jewish and Swedish descent, and his mother, Julia Ivanovna Konetskaya, was from a Russian Orthodox family. His father was an architect and his mother was the daughter of a prosperous merchant. Julia left Riga the same year as the Russian Revolution (1905), bringing Sergei with her to St. Petersburg. Her son would return at times to see his father, who later moved to join them around 1910.Divorce followed and Julia deserted the family to live in France.
Sergei Eisenstein the Father of Montage
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Oktober by Sergei Eisenstein
Actors: Peter Greenaway (writer), Peter Greenaway (director), Femke Wolting (producer), Bruno Felix (producer), Liisa Penttilä (producer), Karin S. de Boer (producer), Cristina Velasco (producer), Elmer Bäck (actor),
Plot: The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein's sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career - a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar's Plot.
Genres: Romance,Actors: Diane Pitblado (miscellaneous crew), Bernard Hill (actor), Daniel MacIvor (actor), Jonathan Hyde (actor), Jacqueline McKenzie (actress), Leni Parker (actress), Rolf Saxon (actor), Simon McBurney (actor), James Hazeldine (actor), Sofie Handfield (miscellaneous crew), Marius Biegai (actor), Wolfram Tichy (producer), Wiebke von Carolsfeld (editor), Marco Mehlitz (producer), Tim McMullan (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Charles Dance (actor), William Neenan (actor), Nick Kenworthy-Browne (composer), Declan O'Dwyer (actor), Declan O'Dwyer (director), Felix Bell (actor), Julian Unthank (writer), Julian Unthank (producer), Elena D'Cruze-Reynolds (costume designer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: John Greyson (editor), John Greyson (director), John Greyson (writer), John Greyson (producer), George Spelvin (actor), Paul Bettis (actor), David Gonzales (actor), David McIntosh (editor), Glenn Schellenberg (composer), Olivia Rojas (actress), Keltie Creed (actress), Pauline Carey (actress), Lance Eng (actor),
Plot: A mystery man brings together a group of dead, gay artists to investigate a police response to the dilema of wash-room sex in Toronto. The artists have seven days in which to report on the ethics of police tactics. The artists infiltrate the police only to discover that they themselves are under surveillance as a political subversive group. The artists explore and report on the evolution of toilets and wash-room behavior.
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