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Sergei Eisenstein
Autobiography
(1996)

The most famous of Russian film directors is the subject of this documentary film. Eisenstein’s silent era films included Strike (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928).

1999 Image Entertainment edition

Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography (1996), color and black & white, 92 minutes, not rated.

Image Entertainment, ID5381IADVD, UPC 0-14381-53812-0.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, snapper case, $24.99.
DVD release date: 28 December 1999.
Country of origin: USA

We have not viewed the DVD. We are looking forward to watching this film on a most influential filmmaker.

 
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Other silent era Sergei Eisenstein films available on home video:
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Glumov’s Diary (1923)
October (1928)
Old and New (1929)
Strike (1924)

Plus:
Earth (1930) with 31-minute reconstruction of Sergei Eisenstein’s Bezhin Meadow (1937)

Other RUSSIAN silent era films available on DVD home video.

Other silent era-related documentaries available on home video:
American Experience: Mary Pickford (2005)
Before Hollywood, There Was Fort Lee, N.J. (1964)
Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)
Birth of a Legend (1966)
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001)
The Chaplin Puzzle (1992)
Chaplin’s Art of Comedy (1966)
Chaplin’s Goliath (1996)
Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years (2003)
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
Clara Bow: Discovering the ‘It’ Girl (1999)
Discovering Cinema (1908-2004)
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler (1976)
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006)
The Film Parade: A History of Early Cinema (1933-1947)
Forgotten Silver (1997)
Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998)
The Gentleman Tramp (1975)
The Great Chase (1963)
Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy (1962)
Kingdom of Shadows (1998)
The Last Diva: Francesca Bertini (1982)
Laurel and Hardy’s Laughing 20s (1965)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1982)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon (2004)
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998)
The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997)
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde (1997)
Memories of the Silent Stars
Olive Thomas: Everybody’s Sweetheart (2004)
Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat (1977)
The Railrodder (1965)
Rudolph Valentino: The Great Lover (2006)
Silent Britain (2006)
Slaphappy: The Movie (2004)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton at MGM (2004)
30 Years of Fun (1963)
Unknown Chaplin (1983)
Victor Sjöström (1981)
The Way to Murnau (2003)
When Comedy Was King (1960)
Without Lying Down (2000)

 
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