Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga in 1898. His father was a Jew of
German origin who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy and who passed
himself off as a Baltic baron. His mother was the daughter of
wealthy Russian (and traditionally anti-Semitic) merchants from
St.Petersburg. Eisenstein's life was full of unforeseen diversions
and turns of events. Would he become an architect like his father
and go into German exile in 1918? Would he be banished as a
Freemason in 1925, or stay in the USA in 1932? Would he be
sentenced by a special court in 1939 to be executed, like his
friends Isaak Babel and Vsevolod Meyerhold? Or would he ultimately
die as a Stalin Prize winner (for "Ivan the Terrible," Part I) of a
heart attack caused by the ban on Part II? This biography came into
being after extensive research in Moscow, Berlin, Paris, New York,
and Los Angeles. The author is the first to analyze Eisenstein's
diaries and correspondence?materials that were inaccessible in the
past. Eisenstein's relations with Freemasons, Rosicrucians and
Stalin, with rivals and admirers, with psychoanalysts who treated
him?are no longer faded out. Was Eisenstein homosexual? A
Stalinist? A conformist? A dissident? He left no clear answers for
his biographers. Oksana Bulgakowa's study of Eisenstein's life
tries to uncover these themes in his films and drawings, between
the lines of his diaries and letters, in his drafts to screenplays,
projects, and research. Late in life Eisenstein viewed this
research as his only possible means of salvation from the
compromises he had consciously made with himself and his
creativity. Oksana Bulgakowa (b. 1954) graduated from the Moscow
Film Institute VGIK in 1977. In the same year she moved to
Berlin/GDR and received her doctoral degree from Humboldt
University in 1982. She works as an author, editor, translator, and
filmmaker. Since 1998 she has been a visiting professor at Stanford
University, USA. For further information go to
www.PotemkinPress.com]
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