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Filmmaker · Mexico, Russia

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Died in 1948

Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga on 22 January 1898, the son of an architect. He studied civil engineering in Petrograd, joined the Red Army, then entered the Proletkult theatre as a designer and director. There he developed the “montage of attractions”: from the assembly of images an emotion or an idea is meant to arise in the spectator. A filmmaker and theorist, he completed only seven films. He died of a heart attack in Moscow on 11 February 1948, aged fifty.

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