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Introducing Sergei Eisenstein

Battleship Potemkin • 8m 52s

Klassiki curator Sam Goff introduces viewers to the remarkable life and work of Sergei Eisenstein. One of the most influential filmmakers of all time, Eisenstein nonetheless had to battle against critical and political pressure throughout his career: from his silent masterpiece Battleship Potemkin to the haunted world of his late Ivan the Terrible films.

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