Eisenstein suffered a severe heart attack in 1946 and died of a second in his Moscow apartment on 11 February 1948.
Working initially as a director and designer, he became intensely interested in cultural theory and wrote the treatise Montage of Attractions in 1923.
Scenes already filmed from a planned Part Three were confiscated and destroyed and the great man was left in disgrace.
This led to his making his first film, Gulmov’s Diary, the same year, an adaptation of one his own experimental theatre productions.
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