Sergey Eisenstein.

Sergey Eisenstein. , 1958 (51:19)

Annotation: Devoted to the 60th Anniversary of the world-famous Russian film director Sergey Eisenstein.

Film description: Fragments films Eisenstein: "strike", "Battleship Potemkin", "October", "Old and New," "Alexander Nevsky", "Ivan", "Viva Mexico!", "Dream". Film director GV Alexandrov says (sinhr.) on the work of Sergei Eisenstein in Mexico. Film director Sergei Eisenstein among students fighting positions, among their friends during the shooting of Mikhail Romm "Dream", the work in the home environment. Apartment Interior Eisenstein. Eisenstein with the composer Sergei Prokofiev, on the filming of "Ivan the Terrible." Images Eisenstein.

Source description 1: Portraits of Sergey Eisenstein.
Shots of his films.
The City of Riga.
The house where Sergey Eisenstein was born.
A photo: Sergey Eisenstein as a child.
Sergey Eisensteinа’s report card.
An album of child drawings by the future film director.
A student’s book of Sergey Eisenstein.
The certificate of a militiaman.
The Red Army book.
Sketches of theatrical costumes.
A playbill of the performance “Na vsyakogo mudreca dovol'no prostoty” [“Every Man Has a Fool in His Sleeve”].
Designs of costumes for the performances.
A photo: a scene of the performance “Every Man Has a Fool in His Sleeve”.
Artists: V. Yanukova; M. Shtraukh; G. Aleksandrov.
Sergey Eisenstein.
A fragment of the film “Stachki” [“The Strike”]: workers are abandoning their work.
A factory does not work.
A photo: Sergey Eisenstein is at the cutting table.
Shots of “The Strike”: portraits of security guard agents.
A meeting.
Crackdown of workers’ demonstration.
Portraits of: Sergey Eisenstein, E. Tise, Sergey Eisenstein’s assistants: Levshin, Antonov, Gomorov, Shtraukh, Aleksandrov.
A photo: N. Agadzhanova.
Shots of the film “Bronenosets Potyomkin” [“The Battleship Potemkin”]: shooting of sailors.
Sailor Vakulenchuk is appealing to a rebellion.
A rebellion aboard the battleship.

Source description 2: Shots of the film “The Battleship Potemkin”: shooting of workers in the city of Odessa.
Soviet and foreign bills of the film, clippings, books about the film.
The Italian film director Giuseppe de Santis is speaking.
A portrait of Sergey Eisenstein.
A bill of the film “Oktyabr’" [“October”].
Shots of the film: Lenin is on a platform.
People are greeting Lenin.
Kerensky is walking by.
A Menshevik is speaking.
Photos: Eisenstein is at a cutting table, during shooting.
A shot of the film: the assault of the “Winter Palace”.
A photo: Eisenstein and Tise are during shooting.
Shots of the film “Staroye i Novoye” [“The Old and The New”].
Sole-proprietorship peasants are cultivating the land.
The film heroine Marfa Lapkina is sleeping.
Marfa Lapkina’ dream.

Source description 3: Photos, clippings.
G. Aleksandrov is telling about his and Sergey Eisenstein’s stay in Mexico.
Photos of production.
Film shots created by Sergey Eisenstein: portraits of Mexicans, ancient monuments, a national fest.
Execution of rebelled peons.
Sergey Eisenstein is among students of the Cinematography Institute.
Sergey Eisenstein’s drawings.
Shots of the film “Bezhin lug” [“The “Bezhin” Meadow”].
Sergey Eisenstein is at a microphone.
A shot of the film “Alexander Nevsky”: Russian prisoners are in front of Swedes.

Source description 4: A shot of the film “Alexander Nevsky”.
A photo: shooting of the Ice Battle - production.
Shots of the Ice Battle.
Mikhail Kalinin is giving an order to Sergey Eisenstein.
Sergey Eisenstein is among film directors, among friends.
Eisenstein is observing sets of the film “Mechta” [“The Dream”].
Magazines, books, drawings of Sergey Eisenstein.
Materials of Sergey Eisenstein’s fund.
A library and single objects in Sergey Eisenstein’s apartment.
The film director is at work.
Books, pictures, replications, letters, photos with P. Robson, May Lan Fan, Chaplin.

Source description 5: Shots of the film “Ivan Grozny” [“Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible”].
The stardom banns of Ivan, battle scenes, portraits of the characters, Ivan is at Anastasya’s coffin.
Drawings to the film.
Shots of the film: “Ivan i oprichniki [Ivan and soldier of oprichnina (political and administrative apparatus established by Russian Tsar Ivan IV)].
Sergey Eisenstein and Sergey Prokofiev.
Sergey Prokofiev.
A photo: production of the film “Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible”.
Shots of the film: “Scena v Aleksandrovskoi slobode” [“Scene in the settlement of Alexandrov”].
Sketces to a film about Pushkin, Nerone, the Great Fergana Canal construction, about Moscow.
Books, magazines.
The exhibition of Eisenstein’s drawings.
A scientific conference.
Shots of the films by Eisenstein.

Directors: Katanyan V.

Operators: Glider M.

Script writers: Yurenev R.

Announcer: Khmara L.

Text writers: Yureneva E.