EISENSTEIN Sergei Mikhailovich

10 января 1898 (Riga) — 11 февраля 1948 (Moscow)

Filmmaker, theorist, painter, set designer

From a family of engineer-строителя М. О. Эйзенштейна. He graduated from the Riga Realschule. He studied at the Petrograd Institute of civil engineers (second half of 1910-х). Formal artistic education is not received.

between 1918 and served as a volunteer in the red Army; worked as a set designer in an army of Amateur and was involved in designing the campaign train. In 1920 he was sent to continue his education at the Academy of the General staff of the Eastern Department. In those same years, he entered an artist and instructor working in the First mobile company Proletkult; acted as a theater Director: he staged "the Mexican" (1920, in the book of John. London), "Moscow, do you hear?" (1922), "the Wise man" (1923, the play А. Н. Островского), "Masks" (1924).

In 1921-1922 учился at the State higher directing workshops (GVYRM) В. Э. Мейерхольда. During his studies helped in the creation of scenery for a number of productions. In 1923 he became close with the members of the group LEF — В. В. Маяковским and other; published in the same magazine his creative Manifesto "Montage of attractions".

Worked at the First factory of Goskino. In 1924 he filmed the first feature film "Strike" (silver medal at the International exhibition of modern decorative-промышленных arts in Paris, 1925). Director of "Battleship Potemkin" (1925), "October" (1927, together with Г. В. Александровым), "the General line" (1929).

In 1929-1932 находился in a mission abroad to study Western experience in the field of cinema. In parallel, he lectured in Hamburg, Berlin, London, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Brussels. In Hollywood offered several scripts for the film adaptation of; in 1930 he signed a contract with Paramount Pictures for a film adaptation of the novel Т. Драйзера "an American tragedy", but after a few months after starting work on the script for a film company broke off the contract. In 1930-1932 снял a lot of scenes in Mexico to film "Viva Mexico!".