🎞 126 years ago, on 22 January 1898, Sergey Eisenstein was born, one of the world’s leading film directors, whose contributions to cinema theories still remain the subject of great interest and debate today.
He is known throughout the world as the “father of montage cinema” having introduced this new kind of film language as early as 1924.
📹 In his first full-length feature film “Strike” (1925) he showed a group of factory workers shot down, with the scenes of their deaths intercut with the depiction of cattle at the slaughter. Parallel images had a serious emotional impact on viewers.
👉 Eisenstein’s most famous film “Battleship Potemkin” (1925), the story of one of the tragic episodes of the 1905 Russian Revolution, remains one of the most fundamental landmarks of the cinema. Its famous massacre on the Odessa Steps has been quoted so many times in other films (Brian De Palma’s “The Untouchables,” Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather”, Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Bastards”) that it's likely many viewers will have seen the copies before they see the original.
☝️ Eisenstein believed that film should educate rather than just entertain. When on a tour in Hollywood he realized that his artistic approach to cinema was incompatible with that of American studios focusing on profit. None of his three projects were put into production.
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He is known throughout the world as the “father of montage cinema” having introduced this new kind of film language as early as 1924.
📹 In his first full-length feature film “Strike” (1925) he showed a group of factory workers shot down, with the scenes of their deaths intercut with the depiction of cattle at the slaughter. Parallel images had a serious emotional impact on viewers.
👉 Eisenstein’s most famous film “Battleship Potemkin” (1925), the story of one of the tragic episodes of the 1905 Russian Revolution, remains one of the most fundamental landmarks of the cinema. Its famous massacre on the Odessa Steps has been quoted so many times in other films (Brian De Palma’s “The Untouchables,” Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather”, Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Bastards”) that it's likely many viewers will have seen the copies before they see the original.
☝️ Eisenstein believed that film should educate rather than just entertain. When on a tour in Hollywood he realized that his artistic approach to cinema was incompatible with that of American studios focusing on profit. None of his three projects were put into production.
#russiancinema #russiaculture #eisenstein #cinematography