Potemkin

Navigating the deadly waters of Stalinist politics, Eisenstein was able to film two parts of his planned trilogy about the troubled 16th-century tsar who united Russia. Visually stunning and powerfully acted, Ivan the Terrible charts the rise to power and descent into terror of this veritable dictator. Though pleased with the first installment, Stalin detected the portrait in the second film—with its summary executions and secret police—and promptly banned it.

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"Sweet Movie" has to be one of the most controversial films ever made. The plot follows the adventures of a beauty queen (Carole Laure), a certified virgin who escapes a disastrous honeymoon with the richest man in the world to join a group of carefree sensualists. The latter are the once-notorious Otto Mühl troupe. This is cross-cut with the journey of the good ship SS Survival (which sports Karl Marx for a masthead) on the Seine. This boat features a cargo of sugar, a demented crew, a revolutionary zealot captain and her lover, a refugee from the Battleship Potemkin…

Several fragments from the Eisenstein manuscripts, a document of greater significance, the Conspectus submitted to Aleksandr Luriya for their planned collaboration on a lecture course on 'The Psychology of the Creative Process', with related writings.