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In its decennial poll, the magazine Sight and Sound named his Battleship Potemkin the 54th-greatest film of all time.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"10 January 1898","date":"1898-01-10"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Riga","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1773"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"11 February 1948","date":"1948-02-11"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Moscow","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Russian Empire","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34266"},{"text":"Soviet Union","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15180"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"film director","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2526255"},{"text":"inventor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205375"},{"text":"film editor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7042855"},{"text":"screenwriter","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28389"},{"text":"teacher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37226"},{"text":"cinematographer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q222344"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1628728","end":"1915"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Pera Atasheva","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3375077"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003#P26"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Stalin Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2329480","date":"1941"},{"text":"Order of Lenin","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185493","date":"1939"},{"text":"Order of the Badge of Honour","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960966"},{"text":"Medal \"For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945\"","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1600457"},{"text":"Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13418138"},{"text":"Medal \"In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow\"","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2634074"},{"text":"State Stalin Prize, 1st degree","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56669004"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Sergei Eisenstein born?","a":"Sergei Eisenstein was born on 10 January 1898 in Riga."},{"q":"Where did Sergei Eisenstein study?","a":"Sergei Eisenstein was educated at Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering."}],"related":[{"name":"Alfred Nobel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfred-nobel"},{"name":"André-Marie Ampère","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/andre-marie-ampere"},{"name":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/antoine-de-saint-exupery"},{"name":"Archimedes","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/archimedes"},{"name":"Christiaan Huygens","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/christiaan-huygens"},{"name":"James Clerk Maxwell","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/james-clerk-maxwell"},{"name":"James Watt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/james-watt"},{"name":"Johannes Kepler","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/johannes-kepler"},{"name":"L. 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