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Written and Directed by Renny Bartlett GERMANY/CANADA, 2000 96 Minutes IN ENGLISH Film Source Information Simon McBurney, Director of the Theatre de Complicité (responsible for last spring's hit stage production, Mnemonic), stars as Sergei Eisenstein in this provocative debut feature from Renny Bartlett. In 1921 the future film innovator meets his mentor, the revolutionary theater director Meyerhold, then goes on to make his first masterpiece, THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, after which he is hailed, at age 27, as the world's greatest filmmaker. The film touches, peripherally, on the effect of Soviet anti-Semitism on Eisenstein and on his identity as a gay man, but its central theme is the artist's Faustian deal with the all-powerful state, in the person of the murderous Stalin. Excerpts from POTEMKIN, STRIKE, OCTOBER, QUE VIVA MEXICO and IVAN THE TERRIBLE, among others, evoke his indomitable genius.

With support from the Joan S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Films

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• EISENSTEIN Photo Gallery Slide Show
• Read Stephen Holden’s New York Times review.
• The All-Movie Guide EISENSTEIN Page
• The Internet Movie Database EISENSTEIN page
• An essay about the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein on The World Socialist Web Site
• Picture Gallery, Bio and other Information about Sergei Eisenstein
• Compton's on-line search results for Sergei Eisenstein
• A review of David Bordwell's book on Sergei Eisenstein - (The Book is available at Amazon.com)
• Information about Sergei Eisenstein's life & works
• Infoplease.com entry on Sergei Eisenstein
• Finnish webpage about Sergei Eisenstein
• The films of Sergei Eisenstein from The All-Movie Guide
• The films of Sergei Eisenstein from The Internet Movie database
• Review of Alexander Nevsky at film.u-net.com
• Review of The Battleship Potemkin at film.u-net.com
• Information abut the concept of 'montage', & the Odessa steps sequence of the film The Battleship Potemkin

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Selections from Amazon.com:

Film Form by Sergei Eisenstein	The Film Sense by Sergei Eisenstein	The Eisenstein Reader by Richard Taylor (Editor), Colin Maccabe, Sergei Eisenstein	The Cinema of Eisenstein by David Bordwell
(not shown) Eisenstein at 100: A Reconsideration by Albert J. Lavalley (Editor), Barry P. Scherr (Editor), Al Lavalley (Editor) S.M. Eisenstein: Selected Works : Towards a Theory of Montage by S.M. Eisenstein, Michael Glenny (Editor), Richard Taylor, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (Illustrator) Eisenstein, Cinema, and History by James Goodwin	Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict by Ronald Bergan	Sergei M. Eisenstein's Potemkin: A Shot-By-Shot Presentation by David Mayer	The Street of Crocodiles by Simon McBurney (the actor who plays Eisenstein in EISENSTEIN), Bruno Schulz
VIDEOS OF FILMS BY SERGEI EISENSTEIN:
Aleksandr Nevsky (1938) DVD VHS Eisenstein - The Sound Years (Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 & 2, Alexander Nevsky) DVD		Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1 [Ivan Groznyj I] DVD VHS	Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 2 [Ivan Groznyj II] DVD VHS Ivan the Terrible- Part 1 & 2 VHS
Sergei Eisenstein Mexican Fantasy (1998) [Sergei Eisenstein. Meksikanskaya fantasiya] DVD		Battleship Potemkin (1925) [Bronenosets Potyomkin] DVD VHS	October (1927) (Ten Days That Shook the World) [Oktyabr] DVD VHS
Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography (1996) [Avtobiografiya] DVD VHS	Strike (1925) (Stachka) DVD VHS	Que Viva Mexico (1932) (ÁChe viva Mexico!) DVD VHS	Soundtrack: Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) Audio CD

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