Google Doodle Celebrates 120th Birthday of Sergei Eisenstein

Today, Google's doodle celebrates the 120th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet theater and film director, artist, screenwriter, art theorist and teacher Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein .

Old Soviet classics

Among the many paintings of Sergei Eisenstein are the famous films "Battleship Potemkin" in 1925, "Alexander Nevsky" (1938) and the three-part saga "Ivan the Terrible" (1944-1946). For the last two works he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

Doodle Google drew the artist Pedro Vergani. When he created it, he was inspired by the picture below. On it Eisenstein mounted the film "Battleship Potemkin".