MOSCOW. April 17 (Interfax) - Fourteen countries, including Venezuela, Vietnam, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Peru, Singapore and Ecuador, will take part in the Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF ...

When he filmed Ten Days That Shook the World in 1927, ten years after the October Revolution that the movie recreated, Sergei Eisenstein had all Leningrad at his disposal. He took over the dead ...

Eisenstein is celebrated either as the last Leonardo da Vinci of modernity or attacked as Faustus, Faustus who made a pact with the devil. Whichever is the case, neither friends nor foes are able ...

Andreas Kern Over the course of 570 minutes (three DVDs), Alexander Kluge works his way through the “ideological antiquity”, inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s unfulfilled plan to film Marx’s “Das ...

Eye witnesses to the actual event complained because Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein portrayed the men about to be executed under a tarpaulin. Eisenstein argued the tarpaulin was a metaphoric ...

In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood ...