Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948) was one of the world's greatest filmmakers, theorists and teachers of cinema. He will always be remembered as the auteur of some of cinema's seminal classics--Battleship Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, October, to mention just a few. Beyond the Stars is the first-ever complete, unabridged edition in English of Eisenstein's memoirs, freshly translated from the newly established, definitive Russian text. Eisenstein, writing ...
