Sergei Eisenstein: The Revolutionary Filmmaker Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist whose work includes the three classic movies *Battleship Potemkin* (1925), *Alexander Nevsky* (1938), and *Ivan the Terrible* (released in two parts, 1944 and 1958). He is noted in particular for his silent films * Strike* and *October,*and most especially for what is generally regarded as his masterwork,*Battleship Potemkin,*films that vastly influenced early documentary and narrative directors owing to his inno…