Born 23 January 1898 in Riga, Russian Empire (now Latvia), as Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein.
Died 11 February 1948 in Moscow, Russia, USSR.
Sergei M. Eisenstein established himself as a world-class filmmaker with his first feature film Stachka [Strike] (1924), and went on to establish himself as a cinematic genius with his next, Bronenosets ‘Potyomkin’ [The Battleship Potemkin] (1925).