Cast: Sergei M. Eisenstein

Direction Hans Richter

Cast Sergei M. Eisenstein · Michael Hankinson · Basil Wright

Plot Experimental documentary focusing on a day in the life of city workers, featuring montage sequences and repetition to emphasise the monotony of routine office work.

Direction Gian Carlo Bertelli

Cast Sergei M. Eisenstein · Josephine Baker · Charles Chaplin · Mikhail Kalinin

Plot An autobiographical film, in English throughout, telling the story of film director Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) from his childhood in Riga, Latvia to receiving the 'Stalin Prize' in Moscow. Based on...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Grigori Aleksandrov · Aleksandr Antonov · Sergei M. Eisenstein · Mikhail Gomorov

Plot Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the...

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Sergei M. Eisenstein

Plot As a teenager, Eisenstein signed his drawings with 'Sir Gay'. Roguish essayist Rappaport sees clear signs of his sexual preferences throughout the Russian's film oeuvre. Numerous asides illustrate how Hollywood...

Direction Artem Demenok

Cast Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg · Vyacheslav Molotov · Sergei M. Eisenstein · Semyon Timoshenko

Plot The "Battle for Moscow" began 80 years ago in October. The Wehrmacht tried to take Moscow. The film tells the story of a fateful year - Moscow 1941, when the...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Ivor Montagu · Hans Richter

Cast Jean-Georges Auriol · Béla Balázs · Sergei M. Eisenstein · Léon Moussinac

Plot A farcical war between the forces of Commercial Cinema and Independent Cinema.