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Sergei Eisenstein has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1920s through the 1950s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Battleship Potemkin.
Battleship Potemkin
1925 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 9%Max · Included
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 20%Max · Included
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 25%Max · Included
Alexander Nevsky
1938 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 39%Tubi · Free w/ ads
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1928 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 44%Tubi · Free w/ ads
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
Dir. Sergei Eisenstein · With Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Dir. Sergei Eisenstein · With Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
Dir. Sergei Eisenstein · With Maksim Shtraukh, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Dir. Sergei Eisenstein · With Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.
Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev · With Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov · With Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko