Lessons with Eisenstein

“Eisenstein Lecture on Film Directing” (by Vladimir B. Nizhnii/1981/Miraisha)

This book that records Eisenstein's classes at National Film University.
Eisenstein is very assertive, but the students are also assertive.
There is a scene where Eisenstein (like Marx) quotes Hegel.
Eisenstein says:
"In ancient times, theater was performed in one theater only. However, as theater developed, it began to take place in various parts of the town at the same time. All the different parts of the town were utilized and devised to create illusions.”
Sergei Yutkevich writes in the commentary at the end of the book:
"Eisenstein's foundation is socialist realism."
The translator writes this in the commentary at the end of the book.
"Teinosuke Kinugaza (Japanese film director) wanted to meet Eisenstein, so he brought his film "Jujiro'' to the Soviet Union. He saw Potemkin for the first time in a screening room in the Soviet Union.”