... For me anyway. I obviously haven't been doing my reading.
I had always assumed Eisenstein was a working-class Russian Jew. And a heterosexual obviously. With Einstein hair.
Now he turns out to be a professional class German from Riga, and a homosexual. Sheesh. But he did know Einstein, as well as every other famous early 20th century name.
Time to reassess that body of work.
Eisenstein directed Wagner's Die Walküre on stage. The video doesn't mention it, but Riga being an old Hanseatic city, Wagner had resided there amongst the Germans at one time.
If there's any deficiency in the documentary, it's an absence of politics. Purges? What purges? We don't need no stinkin' ...
I had always assumed Eisenstein was a working-class Russian Jew. And a heterosexual obviously. With Einstein hair.
Now he turns out to be a professional class German from Riga, and a homosexual. Sheesh. But he did know Einstein, as well as every other famous early 20th century name.
Time to reassess that body of work.
Eisenstein directed Wagner's Die Walküre on stage. The video doesn't mention it, but Riga being an old Hanseatic city, Wagner had resided there amongst the Germans at one time.
If there's any deficiency in the documentary, it's an absence of politics. Purges? What purges? We don't need no stinkin' ...