1/23 | Birthday of Sergei Eisenstein
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 23 Birthday of Sergei Eisenstein, film director Sergei Eizenshtein was born to a middle-class family in Riga, Latvia. His father was of German-Jewish and Swedish descent and his mother was from a Russian Orthodox family. Sergei studied architecture and engineering at the Petrograd Institute of Civil Engineering. In 1918 he joined the Red Army and began studying Japanese. He later cited his knowledge of Japanese and exposure to Kabuki theater as a major influence on his artistic development. In 1920, Eisenstein moved to Moscow, and began his career in...
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