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Sergei Eisenstein's best films

The top 3 according to 53 votes from people: Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) · Battleship Potemkin (1925) · October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927). (Updated Jan 31, 2024.)

From Strike to Ivan the Terrible: Eisenstein's films according to Kuban 24 and Vechernyaya Moskva, led by Battleship Potemkin.

Nastya Egorova · · 10 items · 53 votes · 0 comments

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Top 10

  1. 1

    Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)

    Nikolai Cherkasov as the tsar; the first part.

    ▲ 8 ▼ 0

    8
  2. 2

    Battleship Potemkin (1925)

    The Odessa Steps; voted the greatest film of all time in Brussels in 1958.

    ▲ 7 ▼ 0

    7
  3. 3

    October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927)

    The storming of the Winter Palace, made for the revolution's tenth anniversary.

    ▲ 6 ▼ 0

    6
  4. 4

    Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958)

    Shot in 1946, banned, and released only in 1958; with a colour banquet scene.

    ▲ 5 ▼ 0

    5
  5. 5

    The General Line (1929)

    Collectivisation in the countryside, also known as Old and New.

    ▲ 5 ▼ 0

    5
  6. 6

    Bezhin Meadow (1937)

    A banned and lost film, reconstructed from still frames.

    ▲ 5 ▼ 0

    5
  7. 7

    Glumov's Diary (1923)

    A short film made for his staging of Ostrovsky.

    ▲ 5 ▼ 0

    5
  8. 8

    Strike (1925)

    His first feature and his early montage experiments.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 1

    3
  9. 9

    Alexander Nevsky (1938)

    The Battle on the Ice, scored by Prokofiev.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  10. 10

    ¡Que viva México! (1932)

    His unfinished Mexican film, assembled by Grigori Aleksandrov in 1979.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 1

    2

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