A
Russian director who made seven films, including
The Battleship Potemkin, in
1925. He is credited with the principles of
montage editing (temporal, dialectical, etc.)
In 1940 Eisenstein directed Wagner's Walkure at the Bolshoi Theatre. He was not a Stalinist, though was connected to Bolshevik ideology. He thought of himself as a director for the common man, but his abstract use of montage and camera angles was on another plane.