Sergei Eisenstein

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Sergei Eisenstein - filmography

Ivan The Terrible - Part 2 (1945)
Starring: Nikolai Cherkassov, Eric Pyriev, Serafima Berman
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
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In the second part of Sergei Eisenstein's grand film, a grieving Ivan (Nikolai Cherkassov) withdraws from Moscow to his estate at Uglich after the death of the empress, less trustful than ever of those who surround him. His solitude is augmented by the defection of his military chief, Prince ..read more »

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Ivan The Terrible - Part 1 (1944)
Starring: Serafima Berman, Nikolai Cherkassov, Ludmila Tselikovskaya
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
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Originally conceived as a historical epic in three parts, Sergei Eisenstein's epic biography of Czar Ivan IV, the murderous 16th-century unifier of the Russian people, was truncated by the director's death in 1948, as he was about to begin part three. A spectacle of impressively baroque splendor, ..read more »

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Alexander Nevsky on DVD (1938)
Starring: Nikolai Cherkassov, Dmitri Orlov, Nikolai Okhlopkov
Director: Sergei Eisenstein, D.I. Vessiliev
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Nikolai Cherkassov stars as the legenday Alexander Nevsky in Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece of propaganda, made with the assistance of Stalin, to stir up Soviet audiences in anticipation of a Nazi invasion. Withdrawn from release after the signing of the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, it returned to ..read more »

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October 1917 - Ten Days That Shook The World on DVD (1927)
Starring: Boris Livanov, Vasili Nikandrov, N Popov
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
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One of the finest examples of intellectual montage, consisting of more than 3,200 shots in its 103 minutes, OCTOBER 1917 has been described as a Constructivist poster come to life. Again working from a commission by Lenin, in this case, to make a film commemorating the 10th anniversary of the ..read more »

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Battleship Potemkin on DVD (1925)
Starring: Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Alexandrov
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
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After the success of Strike (1924), Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a film commemorating the uprising of 1905. Eisenstein's scenario, boiled down from what was to have been a multipart epic of the occasion, focussed on the crew of the battleship Potemkin. Fed up ..read more »

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Strike (1924)
Starring: Maxim Shtraukh, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
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Sergei Eisenstein's first film is, without doubt, one of the most astonishing debuts in film history. His introduction of dialectical montage--which included then-innovative shock cuts to such violent images as a raised club, a bloody face, and a bull's throat being cut--both disturbed and ..read more »

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Ivan The Terrible on DVD
Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
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Ivan suddenly becomes gravely ill and then mysteriously recovers. When a group of conspirators poison his wife, Ivan becomes more wary of his retainers and announces that the will of the people demands his return from Alexandrov to Moscow. Ivan endeavors to preserve his country in the face of all ..read more »

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Ivan The Terrible - 3.5 stars
Alexander Nevsky - 3.5 stars
October 1917 - Ten Days That Shook The World - 3.5 stars
Battleship Potemkin - 3.5 stars
Strike - 3.5 stars

Mikhail Gomorov - 6 times - show films
Grigori Alexandrov - 6 times - show films
Maxim Shtraukh - 5 times - show films
Vasili Nikandrov - 4 times - show films
Vladimir Barsky - 4 times - show films

D.I. Vessiliev - 1 times - show films