buki theatre and Noh drama and their use of masks in his last film "Ivan the Terrible". During World War II, Eisenstein began work on this epic film about the 16th-century Tsar Ivan IV, whom Stalin admired. Before he could finish the third part of the film, Eisenstein died, a few days after his 50th birthday, on February 11, 1948. His political agendas may not have been fulfilled, but his revolutionary advances in film theory and montage will not be long forgotten.