remarkable soviet world director and teacher theorist sergei mikhailovich einstein my name is artyom sopin, i'm a film scholar, and also welcome to the podcast from einstein 125, we'll start the conversation with who einstein is why do we all of a sudden mark him, well, not quite round, yes, then still, yes, why is he so important to us than he is important for the history of cinema, but for this it is necessary to say, in principle , about the moment when he appeared about, and where does he come from came and, in fact, what he did at that moment, when he came to cinema , eisenstein was born at the very end of the 19th century, when cinema was just beginning , he was one of those who, in childhood , first saw both films and méliès. for example, and for him it was the discovery not only of the films themselves, but also of some new entertainment , not yet quite art, of course, from einstein in his childhood he was not going to become a cinematographer. yes, there was no such profession in his head, but he was born into a fairly wealthy family in the city of riga. his father was and they we