THEME EXPLORATION
early 20th century
12 films · 2 directors
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DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Union
His revolutionary films *Battleship Potemkin* and *October* directly document and celebrate the Russian Revolution and early Soviet era of the early 20th century.
Carl Theodor Dreyer DenmarkHis austere, humanistic works like *Vampyr* and *The Passion of Joan of Arc* embody the spiritual and psychological tensions of early 20th-century modernism.