Soviet documentary film about Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, filmed for the 60th anniversary of his birth.
The film uses materials from the State Film Fund. link
The film includes shots: fragments of S. Eisenstein’s films – “Strike”, “Battleship Potemkin”, “October”, “Old and New”, “Alexander Nevsky”, “Ivan”, “Long Live Mexico!”, “Dream” ; interview with film director G.V. Alexandrova about working with S.M. Eisenstein in Mexico; portraits: S.M. Eisenstein, E. Tisse, assistants S.M. Eisenstein: Levshina, Antonova, Gomorova, Straukh, Aleksandrov; film director S. Eisenstein among the students of VGIK, among his friends, on the set of M. Romm’s film “Dream”, at work at home; the interior of S. Eisenstein’s apartment; composer S. Prokofiev with S. Eisenstein on the set of the film “Ivan the Terrible”; drawings by S. Eisenstein.
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