Russia / USSR: Sergei Eisenstein, cinematographer and film director (1898-1948), St Petersburg, c. 1920

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.

He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).

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