Secret Life of Sergei Eisenstein, The*

• 1987 ----- color ----- 56 min ----- vhs
• (A film by Gian Carlo Bertelli) Based on his private memoirs as well as on material from archives around the world, this film is an intimate, inclusive portrait of this master of cinema and his body of work. Eisenstein came to regard the cinema as "the synthesis of all the arts, and most capable of involving its audience totally." Follows him from his origins and early career in Russia, through his work and travels in the politically shifting climates of Europe, the U.S., and Mexico, and back to the Soviet Union. Records his relationships and meetings with contemporaries ranging from Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney and D. W. Griffith to Brecht, Joyce, Pirandello, Einstein, Cocteau, and his frequent collaborator, Prokofiev. (Donated by the Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center) (Restricted to use by institutions of learning within the State of Washington only)
• Topics: (Art: History, Biography, History: Russian, East European and Central Asian, Motion Pictures: History, Political Science: Russian, East European and Central Asian, Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies)