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Filmmaker · Russia

Sergei Eisenstein

Died in 1948

Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), born in Riga on 22 January 1898, studied civil engineering in Petrograd and joined the Red Army in 1918. He then worked at the Proletkult theatre before moving into cinema in 1923. A pioneer of the theory and practice of montage, he was called to Hollywood in 1930, without shooting there, then undertook in Mexico a film that remained unfinished. He died of a heart attack in Moscow on 11 February 1948.

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