Sergei Eisenstein

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Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study
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Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study

“Eisenstein journeyed to Mexico in late 1930 to begin shooting a film. With backing provided by Upton and Mary Craig Sinclair, the great ...
Alexander Nevsky
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Alexander Nevsky

Nov. 24, 1938

Alexander Nevsky

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take ...
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Sergei Eisenstein’s final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Czar Ivan Grozny, which was never completed due again to ...
Battleship Potemkin
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Battleship Potemkin

Dec. 24, 1925

Battleship Potemkin

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. ...
Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film
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Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film

A Soviet farmer’s son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the ...
Que Viva Mexico!
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Que Viva Mexico!

Oct. 01, 1979

Que Viva Mexico!

¡Qué viva México! was a film project undertaken in 1931-32 by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein for American socialist author Upton Sinclair ...
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
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October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

Sergei M. Eisenstein’s docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in ...
Misery and Fortune of Woman
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Misery and Fortune of Woman

This short film shows the contrast between the good conditions in which a rich woman makes a abortion and the miserable and dangerous condition ...
¡Que Viva Mexico!
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¡Que Viva Mexico!

Dec. 31, 1932

¡Que Viva Mexico!

Having revolutionized film editing through such masterworks of montage as Potemkin and Strike, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein emigrated west ...
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot
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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at ...
Glumov’s Diary
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Glumov’s Diary

May. 21, 1923

Glumov’s Diary

Filmic insert to Eisenstein’s modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy’s 19th-century Russian stage play, “The Wise Man” ...
The Disaster in Oaxaca
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The Disaster in Oaxaca

Jan. 22, 1931

The Disaster in Oaxaca

Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico. Release: La destrucción de Oaxaca 1931 General: avi | 175 MB | ...
The General Line
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The General Line

Sep. 25, 1929

The General Line

Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from ...