EISENSTEIN, SERGEI MIKHAILOVICH

Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich: translation

(1898-1948)

   Russian film director. Born in Riga, Latvia, he studied architecture at the Petrograd Institute of Civil Engineering. Later he joined the Red Army. In 1920 he became a set director of the Moscow Proletkult Theatre. His films include Strike, Battleship Potemkin, October, The General Line, Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible.