115 Jahre vor heute wurde Sergei Eisenstein geboren, ein herausragender sowjetischer Filmregisseur, Drehbuchautor und Filmtheoretiker. Sergei Michailowitsch Eisenstein wurde am 22. Januar 1898 in die Familie eines Ingenieurs-Architekten geboren, der seit 1917 den Rang eines Wirklichen Staatsrates trug. Sein Vater war Michael Osipowitsch Eisenstein.2 Fotos

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein received a thorough and well-rounded education. He was fluent in several Western European languages and had a deep knowledge of Russian and world literature. He also had a passion for theater and painting. In 1915, he enrolled at the Institute of Civil Engineers in Petrograd. During the October Revolution of 1917, he actively supported it and joined a student militia unit. In 1918, he left his third-year studies to enlist voluntarily in the Red Army, where he participated in the defense of Petrograd. He also worked as a poster artist and directed propaganda performances in amateur theaters. In 1920, he was sent to study at the Army Staff Academy’s department for Eastern languages, but he did not become a military translator. Instead, he began working at the Proletcult Theater, with the dream of becoming a creator of new revolutionary art.

Soon after, Eisenstein became close friends with Mayakovsky, Meyerhold, and other “left-leaning” artists. Realizing the immense potential of film as an artistic medium, he directed his first true feature film, *Stachka*, in 1923, demonstrating his mastery of metaphor, editing, and rhythm. In 1925, he premiered *The Battleship Potemkin*, which became a classic of modern cinema. Eisenstein developed the theory of “intellectual cinema,” proposing that the development of cinematic language could enable viewers to acquire both artistic and intellectual insights.

Eisenstein foresaw the technical future of sound film. In 1938, he directed *Alexander Nevsky*, which won numerous awards. In the second half of the 1940s, he worked on *Ivan the Terrible*, with the first episode (1945), celebrating the idea of national greatness, receiving the Stalin Prize. However, the second episode was never released due to the authorities’ disapproval of the director’s approach. In a meeting in February 1947, Stalin, Molotov, and Zhdanov met with Eisenstein and the actor Cherkasov to discuss revisions to the film. Nevertheless, the great director’s health deteriorated rapidly, and he passed away on February 11, 1948.