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Sergei Eisenstein Biography (1898-1948)

Born Sergei Maksimilyanovich Eizenshtein, January 23, 1898, in Riga, Russia (now Latvia); died of a heart attack, February 11 (some sources say February 10), 1948, in Moscow, Russia; father, an architect and civil engineer; marriedPeta Attasheva. Career: Director, writer, editor, producer, art director, production designer, set designer, costume designer, and actor. Previously worked as an engineer for the Red Army, c. 1917; Moscow Proketkult Theater, set designer, then director; taught at Moscow's Film Institute, 1933-?;Mosfilm Studios, artistic director, 1940. Military service: Served inRed Army (U.S.S.R.), c. 1918. Awards, Honors: Gold Medal, ExpositionInternationale des Arts Decoratrifs, 1925, for Strike!; Order of Lenin, 1938, for Aleksandr Nevsky; Stalin Prize, first class, 1946, for Ivan Groznyj I..

Gender

Male

Occupation

Director, writer, editor, producer, art director, production designer, set designer, costume designer, actor

Birth Details

January 23, 1898

Riga, Russia

Death Details

February 11, 1948

Moscow, Russia

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Appearances
• Ship chaplain, Bronenosets Potyomkin(also known as The Battleship Potemkin and Potemkin), 1925
• Himself, The Secret Life of Sergei Eisenstein, Mystic Fire Video,1985
• Film Work
• Director, Except Where Indicated
• Dnevnik Glumova(also known as Glumov's Diary and Kinodnevik Glumova), 1923
• And editor, Bronenosets Potyomkin(also known as The BattleshipPotemkin and Potemkin), 1925
• And editor, Stachka(also known as Strike!), 1925
• Oktyabr(also known as October and Ten Days That Shook the World), 1927
• Staroye i novoye(also known as The General Line, Generalnaya liniya and Old and New), 1929
• And editor, Romance sentimentale(also known as Sentimental Romance), 1930
• Que Viva Mexico!,1932
• Thunder over Mexico,1933
• Eisenstein in Mexico,1933
• Death Day,1934
• Bezhin lug(also known as Bezhin Meadow), 1937
• (As S. Eizenshtein) and (uncredited) editor and art director, Aleksandr Nevsky(also known as Alexander Nevsky), 1938
• The Fergana Canal,1939
• Time in the Sun,1940
• Zapotecan Village,1941
• Spaniard and Indian,1941
• Mexico Marches,1941
• Mexican Symphony,1941
• Land and Freedom,1941
• Idol of Hope,1941
• Conquering Cross,1941
• Seeds of Freedom,1943
• And producer, editor, set designer, and costume designer, Ivan GroznyjI(also known as Ivan the Terrible, Part One), 1945
• And producer and production designer, Ivan Groznyj II(also known as The Boyars' Plot, Boyarsky zagovor, and Ivan the Terrible, Part Two), 1958
• Eisenstein's Mexican Project,1958
• Que Viva Mexico!-Da zdravstvuyet Meksika!(also known as Da zdravstvuyet Meksika and Que Viva Mexico!), 1979
• Ivan Groznyj III,1988
• Stage Work
• Worked as production designer, The Mexican(also known as Mexicalia); designer, Enough Simplicity in Every Wise Man(also known asMuch Simplicity in Every Wise Man); director, Gas Masks; director, Anti-Jesus.
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays
• Bronenosets Potyomkin(also known as The Battleship Potemkinand Potemkin), 1925 translated by Gillion R. Aitkin, Simon & Schuster, 1968
• Stachka(also known as Strike!), 1925
• Oktyabr(also known as October and Ten Days That Shook the World), 1927
• Staroye i novoye(also known as The General Line, Generalnaya liniya and Old and New), 1929
• Que Viva Mexico!,1931
• Thunder over Mexico,1933
• Bezhin lug(also known as Bezhin Mexico), 1937
• Aleksandr Nevsky(also known as Alexander Nevsky), 1938
• Time in the Sun,1940
• Seeds of Freedom,1943
• Ivan Groznyj I(also known as Ivan the Terrible, Part One),1945
• Ivan Groznyj II(also known as The Boyar's Plot, Boyarsky zagovor, and Ivan the Terrible, Part Two), 1958
• Que Viva Mexico!-Da zdravstvuyet Meksika!(also known as Da zdravstvuyet Meksika and Que Viva Mexico!), Arno Press, 1972
• Avtobiografiya(also known as Sergej Eisenstein, an Autobiography), 1996
• Meksikanskaya fantasiya(also known as Sergei Eisenstein. Mexican Fantasy and Que Viva Mexico), 1998
• Nonfiction
• The Soviet Screen,1939
• The Film Sense,1942 revised ed., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975
• Notes of a Film Director,1948
• The Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1949
• Charlie Chaplin,1961
• Drawings,1961
• Film Essays with a Lecture, Dobson, 1968 also published as FilmEssays and a Lecture, Praeger, 1970
• Nonindiffent Nature, Cambridge University Press, 1987
• Autobiography
• Beyond the Stars: The Memoirs of Sergei Eisenstein, Seagull Books,1995
• Immoral Memories: An Autobiography, Houghton Mifflin, 1983

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

• Seton, Marie, Sergei M. Eisenstein: A Biography, October 8, 1988,Dobson, 1978.
• Contemporary Authors, volume 149, Gale Research, 1996, pp. 120-23.
• Encyclopedia of World Biography, second edition, volume 5, Gale Research, 1998, pp. 240-41.

Periodicals:

• The Economist, p. 92.
• The Economist, March 28, 1998, p. 79.
• Russian Life, February 28, 1998, p. 37.