in my opinion, there are not many figures who can be called truly so fundamental for cinema, why isenshteinwhy his cinema, because the thoughts that are conveyed through the viewer, through the construction of the frame, through the mesenscene, through editing, that is, by means of cinema, in this sense esenstein was an absolute innovator, other cinema masters, of course, went to this, there in america, grifeth, there von stroheim, but esenstein brought this to perfection, here in his cinema is cinema became cinema as a separate art, for example, before him... the great charlie chaplin filmed, but in principle charlie chaplin could act on stage, that is, cinema in this case was simply a conductor, like a kind of post office, so esenstein created cinema as an art, in which there is an artistic image, there is potemkin, if you remember, the famous scene, there is a stroller rushing along with a child, rushing along the steps of odessa. such eternal questions for russia are the question of power, the question of relationships, the power of the people, the power of the elites, esenstein raises