Soviet Montage

Russia

•  Ruled by the Czar •  1905 Russo-Japanese War •  1905 Revolt •  1914 World War I •  1917 February Czar deposed, Kerensky heads

provisional government •  1917 October Bolsheviks seize government, establish

Soviet Union (1917-1991) •  Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin

Dziga Vertov

•  1896-1954 •  Worked on Soviet agitprop train •  1922-5 Kino-Pravda, Kino Eye •  1929 The Man With A Movie Camera

Montage – Film Editing

•  Lev Kuleshov – Creative Film Experiments •  Eisenstein’s Montage of Attractions

Sergei Eisenstein

•  1898 - 1948 •  1924 STRIKE •  1925 BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN •  1927 OCTOBER/TEN DAYS THAT

SHOOK THE WORLD •  1938 ALEXANDER NEVSKY •  1945 IVAN THE TERRIBLE

Battleship Potemkin

Soviet Montage

•  V.I. Pudovkin (1893-1953) MOTHER (1926), THE END OF ST PETERSBURG, STORM OVER ASIA (1927)

•  Olexandr Dovzhenko (1894-1956) EARTH (1930)