Illustrations

   Frontispiece: Eisenstein as a child

1 Shooting Potemkin

2 A discarded scene from The General Line

3 Meisel’s score for The Battleship Potemkin

4 A screen-test for Ivan the Terrible Part 3

5 Eisenstein in Mexico

6 ‘The Death of King Duncan’ drawing

7 ‘The Building to be Built’ diagram

8 ‘Les Dons’ drawings

9 Eisenstein at La Sarraz

10 Rehearsing Die Walküre

11 Directing Vitya Kartashov in Bezhin Meadow

12 Directing the grandmother in Bezhin Meadow

13 Tisse filming Bezhin Meadow

14 Soviet Potemkin box-office announcement

15 German publicity for October

16 ‘Makes people jealous!’

17 Ivan the Terrible

18 The Provisional Government in October

19 Uzume and Christ in October

20 Jump-cut in October

21 Sailor in October

22 Erotic metaphor in October

23 Kerensky in October

24 The peacock in October

25 Tsar’s portrait in October

26 Chamber-pot in October

27 The Tsar as huntsman in October

28 The Mexican

29 Wise Man

30 Gas Masks

31 Eisenstein, Tretyakov and Mei-Lan-fan

32 Drawing for The Love of a Poet

33 Yuri Tynyanov

34 The Last Judgement mural from Ivan Part 3

35 Bartholomew Fair stage design

36 Lady Macbeth costume design

37 ‘The Death of King Duncan’ drawing

38 Vsevolod Meyerhold

39 Ivan the Terrible shooting diagram

40 Eisenstein with LEF group members

41 Eisenstein meets Mickey Mouse

42 Eisenstein in a Mexican museum

43 ‘Day of the Dead’ in Que Viva Mexico!

44 Workers in The Strike

45 The quarterdeck of the Potemkin

46 The standard-bearer in October

47 Collage by Eisenstein

48 Ballet mécanique

49 Impatience

50 Ivan the Terrible