Eisenstein’s acting experience

Eisenstein entered the film industry in 1924, and his first film, "Strike" (1925), was regarded by "Pravda" as "the first truly proletarian film." He used "montage", crowd scenes, type actors, and location shooting to replace the general "plot", individual protagonists, star performances, and scenery in previous films, reflecting his documentary style. The film "Battleship Potemkin" (1925) further developed the ideological thematic tendencies and aesthetic principles of "Strike". The film creates a comprehensive image of the people who drive history forward. A series of scenes such as the stone lions and the Odessa Steps in the film have become classics in world cinema. At the 1958 Brussels International Film Festival, "Battleship Potemkin" was named the first of the 12 best films since the advent of the film.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution, he accepted the commission to shoot the film "October". In this film he used the principles of rational cinema. It not only reproduces a series of events that occurred from February to October 1917, but also reveals the meaning of these events. In 1950, the film returned to the world's screens with Shostakovich's music. After 1928, he continued to complete the film "General Line" interrupted by "October", which was revised and released under the title "Old and New" (1929). This was the first film in the Soviet Union to show rural cooperativization.

From 1929 to 1932, he visited Europe and the United States with photographer Э.К. Kissey and assistant director Г.В. Alexanderlov. He made a short film "Sentimental" (1930) in France and experimented with the counterpoint of sound and picture. In 1932, with the funding of American writer U. Sinclair, he went to Mexico to shoot the epic film "Viva Mexico", which spanned Mexico's 2,000-year history. In this film, he explores the movement, rhythm and structure of a single shot. The 80,000-meter negative of this film was never sent to Moscow during Eisenstein's lifetime. Many people have edited more than 10 films based on its materials, such as "Mexican Storm" and "Tragic Carnival", which have been screened around the world. Until 1979, through the efforts of all parties, more than 60,000 meters of film were gathered in Moscow. Alexander Love, the famous director and Eisenstein's assistant at the time, edited it into a complete film. It won an honorary gold medal at the 1979 Moscow International Film Festival. Quality award.

After returning to China in 1932, he taught in the Directing Department of the Soviet State Film School in Moscow. The director's internship class method he formulated laid the foundation for the teaching of film directors.

When he was filming "Alexander Nevsky" (1938), he connected the narrative structure of the film with ancient legends and folktales, and compared the image processing of the film with the murals and architecture of ancient Russia. Art is intertwined, and the two are combined with Prokofiev's music in a counterpoint or correspondence. Among them, the battle on the ice lake has become a classic in the history of world cinema. The three-part film "Ivan the Terrible" (Episodes 1 and 2, 1945, the third episode was not completed) was the last film directed by him. In his explanation of Ivan the Terrible, he started from A. С． Pushkin drew inspiration from his historical drama "Boris Godunov", while structurally drawing on and surpassing the experience of the world's classic artists. This multi-voice film, especially the scene of the Guards' banquet and the sound and color montage in the second episode, have made it one of the peaks of world cinema and made a great contribution to the development of film art.