Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein, St. Petersburg, 1910s

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн) (23 January 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage". He was one of artists associated with constructivism.

Quotes

• American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
  • Film Form, edited and translated by Jay Leda (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1949), "Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today", p. 196

Quotes about Sergei Eisenstein

• "This is Paul Robeson, the greatest American singer!" declared the famous film director, Eisenstein, introducing Robeson to a reception in his honor, attended by nearly all the celebrities in Moscow’s theatre and art world.
  • "I Am at Home" in Daily Worker (January 15, 1935)

External links

• "Sergei Eisenstein is Dead in Moscow", Obituary, The New York Times (February 12, 1948)