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Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor “Notes of a Film Director”, illustr., 1st ed., 1947, Moscow, in English - Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor “Notes of a Film Director”, illustr., 1st ed., 1947, Moscow, in English Foreign Languages Publishing House Moscow c.1947. 1st edition 207 + 30pp – plates of illustrations., frontis., b/w plates and illustr. in text Translated from the Russian Hard cloth cover, DJ, size: 22.5 x 17.5 cm. Condition: DJ worn, rubbed and with tears; light wear to cover; some foxing and soiling to endpapers; brown paper near edges tom last 30 plates Weight: 610 gr. Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January [O.S. 10 January] 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, he was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1945/1958). In its decennial poll, the magazine Sight and Sound named his Battleship Potemkin the 54th-greatest film of all time.