Eisenstein is celebrated either as the last Leonardo da Vinci of modernity or attacked as Faustus, Faustus who made a pact with the devil. Whichever is the case, neither friends nor foes are able ...

When he filmed Ten Days That Shook the World in 1927, ten years after the October Revolution that the movie recreated, Sergei Eisenstein had all Leningrad at his disposal. He took over the dead ...

Andreas Kern Over the course of 570 minutes (three DVDs), Alexander Kluge works his way through the “ideological antiquity”, inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s unfulfilled plan to film Marx’s “Das ...

This 1896 property, where director Sergei Eisenstein found inspiration for his film ¡Que Viva México!, claims to be the first hotel to have opened a nightclub. Immortalized in the 1966 Graham ...

A documentary about the Riga-born film director Sergei Eisenstein - his life and the time he lived in. Follows on from "Sergei Eisenstein. Foreword" by the same director, Epners.

They include: Advertisement -- American patriot John Hancock in 1737 -- Writer Stendhal, a pseudonym for Marie-Henri Beyle, in 1783 -- Artist Edouard Manet in 1832 -- Filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein ...