Soviet cinema The Battleship Potemkin greatest film of all time Brussels World's Fair Sergei Eisenstein Andrei Tarkovsky Lev Kuleshov Soviet montage theory All-Union Institute of Cinematography Dziga Vertov Kino-Eye Chapaev The Cranes Are Flying Ballad of a Soldier cinema impact Kino Russian
Russian and later Soviet cinema was a hotbed of invention, resulting in world-renowned films such as The Battleship Potemkin, which was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. Soviet-era filmmakers, most notably Sergei Eisenstein and Andrei Tarkovsky, would go on to become among of the world's most innovative and influential directors. Eisenstein was a student of Lev Kuleshov, who developed the groundbreaking Soviet montage theory of film editing at the world's first film school, the All-Union Institute of Cinematography. Dziga Vertov's "Kino-Eye" theory had a huge impact on the development of documentary filmmaking and cinema realism. Many Soviet socialist realism films were artistically successful, including Chapaev, The Cranes Are Flying, and Ballad of a Soldier.
